--- title: So the zodiac is a good way to learn real biology: enjoy the legend,… — The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behi… · tree and pragmatics description: So the zodiac is a good way to learn real biology: enjoy the legend, then ask what the real animal is like. Who acts: zodiac. 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 pragma --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 6 So the zodiac is a good way to learn real biology: enjoy the legend, then ask what the real animal is like. **Who acts:** zodiac · **What happens:** be, learn, enjoy, ask · **To what, where:** good way, real biology, legend 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 (zodiac), 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:6 # text = So the zodiac is a good way to learn real biology: enjoy the legend, then ask what the real animal is like. # 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 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 zodiac zodiac NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 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 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 enjoy enjoy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:ccomp 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the zodiac | a good way | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | | real biology | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biology=Topic | | 3 | **enjoy** | infinitive | | the legend | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer legend=Stimulus | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | then | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | like *property* | tree rules | 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:6`. **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. **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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