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title: Chickens come from the red junglefowl of southern China and South-Ea… — The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chickens come from the red junglefowl of southern China and South-East Asia, and pigs were tamed in China about 9,000 years ago. Who acts: Chickens. A sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 17

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Chickens come from the red junglefowl of southern China and South-East Asia, and pigs were tamed in China about 9,000 years ago.

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**Who acts:** Chickens · **What happens:** come, tame · **To what, where:** red junglefowl, pigs, China

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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 (Chickens), 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:17
# text = Chickens come from the red junglefowl of southern China and South-East Asia, and pigs were tamed in China about 9,000 years ago.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	junglefowl	junglefowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
13	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	tamed	tame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	9,000	9,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl:unmarked
25	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Chickens |  |  | the red junglefowl of southern China and South and East Asia |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from junglefowl=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **tame** | past · passive |  | pigs |  | China |  | ago *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

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

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