--- title: The twelve animals go in order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snak… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: The twelve animals go in order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig; the year turns at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January, so a January birthday may belong to the year before. Who acts: twelve animals, year, January birthday. 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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 (twelve animals, year, January birthday), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.lesson:1 # text = The twelve animals go in order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig; the year turns at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January, so a January birthday may belong to the year before. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Tiger Tiger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Horse Horse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Goat Goat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:appos 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 Chinese Chinese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 flat _ _ 37 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 38 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obl _ _ 43 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod:unmarked _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 belong belong VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 51 to to ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 54 before before ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | the twelve animals | Rat and Ox and Tiger and Rabbit and Dragon and Snake and Horse and Goat and Monkey and Rooster and Dog and Pig | | order | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location | | 2 | **turn** | present | the year | | | 1 January | at New Year | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at year=Source on 1=Trajectory | | 3 | **belong** | may | a January birthday | | | | year | before *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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:chinese-street:019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Animals and "what animal are you?", 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/0/) - next →: [Animals and "what animal are you?", 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/)