--- title: The dark patches on the Moon are plains of old cooled lava, and peop… — The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behi… · tree and pragmatics description: The dark patches on the Moon are plains of old cooled lava, and people in China, Japan and Korea see a rabbit there, because our brains love finding faces and animal shapes in patterns; China named its Moon rovers Yutu, the jade rabbit. Who acts: dark patches, people, brains, China. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dark patches, people, brains, China), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.lesson:13 # text = The dark patches on the Moon are plains of old cooled lava, and people in China, Japan and Korea see a rabbit there, because our brains love finding faces and animal shapes in patterns; China named its Moon rovers Yutu, the jade rabbit. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 plains plain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 cooled cool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 Korea Korea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 31 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 32 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 patterns pattern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 named name VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 43 rovers rover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 44 Yutu Yutu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 jade jade NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 48 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the dark patches on the Moon | plains | | | | of old cooled lava | tree rules | | 2 | **cool** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **see** | present | people in China and Japan and Korea | a rabbit | | there | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus | | 4 | **love** | present | our brains | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **find** *not said to happen* | gerund | our brains *not said here* | faces and animal shapes in patterns | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Topic | | 6 | **name** | past | China | rabbit's Moon rovers | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rover=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.lesson:13`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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