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title: The Monkey King is a story hero, but rhesus macaques really live wil… — The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behi… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Monkey King is a story hero, but rhesus macaques really live wild in China and quickly learn to grab food and phones from tourists. Who acts: Monkey King, rhesus macaques. A sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 16

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The Monkey King is a story hero, but rhesus macaques really live wild in China and quickly learn to grab food and phones from tourists.

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**Who acts:** Monkey King, rhesus macaques · **What happens:** be, live, learn, grab · **To what, where:** story hero, China, food, tourists

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey King, rhesus macaques), 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:16
# text = The Monkey King is a story hero, but rhesus macaques really live wild in China and quickly learn to grab food and phones from tourists.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Monkey	monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
10	rhesus	rhesus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	macaques	macaque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	really	really	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
18	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
24	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Monkey King | a story hero |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | rhesus macaques |  |  | China |  | wild *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location |
| 3 | **learn** | present | rhesus macaques *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **grab** | to-infinitive | rhesus macaques *not said here* | food and phones |  | tourists |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from tourist=Source |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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