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title: The twelve zodiac animals are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake,… — The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behi… · tree and pragmatics
description: The twelve zodiac animals are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig; eleven are real and one, the dragon, is not. Who acts: twelve zodiac animals, eleven, one. A sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» of the bi
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# The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 7

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The twelve zodiac animals are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig; eleven are real and one, the dragon, is not.

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**Who acts:** twelve zodiac animals, eleven, one · **What happens:** be, dragon, not be · **To what, where:** rat

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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 (twelve zodiac animals, eleven, one), 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:7
# text = The twelve zodiac animals are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig; eleven are real and one, the dragon, is not.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	zodiac	zodiac	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nsubj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
39	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39: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 twelve zodiac animals | rat and ox and tiger and rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | eleven |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dragon** |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **be** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:7`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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