--- title: Real rats eat almost anything, have babies quickly and learn fast, a… — The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behi… · tree and pragmatics description: Real rats eat almost anything, have babies quickly and learn fast, and they spread round the world on people's ships and carts. Who acts: Real rats, 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 de --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 9 Real rats eat almost anything, have babies quickly and learn fast, and they spread round the world on people's ships and carts. **Who acts:** Real rats, rat · **What happens:** eat, have, learn, spread · **To what, where:** anything, babies, ships 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 (Real rats, 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:9 # text = Real rats eat almost anything, have babies quickly and learn fast, and they spread round the world on people's ships and carts. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 round round ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 carts cart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Real rats | anything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | Real rats *not said here* | babies | | | | quickly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 3 | **learn** | present | Real rats *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spread** | present | rat | | | people's ships and carts | | round the world | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ship=Location | 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:9`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×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. 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