--- title: The old stories are legends: the rat did not really win a race by ri… — The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behi… · tree and pragmatics description: The old stories are legends: the rat did not really win a race by riding on the ox's back. Who acts: old stories, rat. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs/) / 3 # The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 3 The old stories are legends: the rat did not really win a race by riding on the ox's back. **Who acts:** old stories, rat · **What happens:** be, not win, ride · **To what, where:** legends, race, back 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 (old stories, rat), 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:3 # text = The old stories are legends: the rat did not really win a race by riding on the ox's back. # 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 ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 really really ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl:relcl 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 by by SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nmod 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the old stories | legends | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **win** | past · do-support | the rat | a race | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | | 3 | **ride** | gerund | the rat *not said here* | | | the ox's back | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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