--- title: Water buffaloes pulled ploughs through flooded rice fields, wild hor… — The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behi… · tree and pragmatics description: Water buffaloes pulled ploughs through flooded rice fields, wild horses were saved by zoos, and chickens and pigs were tamed in Asia thousands of years ago. Who acts: Water buffaloes, zoos. 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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 (Water buffaloes, zoos), 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:5 # text = Water buffaloes pulled ploughs through flooded rice fields, wild horses were saved by zoos, and chickens and pigs were tamed in Asia thousands of 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 buffaloes buffalo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 4 ploughs plough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 10 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 saved save VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:agent _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 tamed tame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:compound 25 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl:unmarked 28 ago ago ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | past | Water buffaloes | ploughs | | flooded rice fields | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme | | 2 | **flood** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **save** | past · passive | zoos | wild horses | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **tame** | past · passive | | chickens and pigs | | | | Asia *obl*; ago *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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:5`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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