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title: "tùzi" (falling) means rabbit, and a Moon Rabbit appears in the Mid-… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: "tùzi" (falling) means rabbit, and a Moon Rabbit appears in the Mid-Autumn story; tǔ (dipping) means soil. Who acts: tùzi, Moon Rabbit, tǔ. A sentence of the lesson «Animals and "what animal are you?"» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 10

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"tùzi" (falling) means rabbit, and a Moon Rabbit appears in the Mid-Autumn story; tǔ (dipping) means soil.

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**Who acts:** tùzi, Moon Rabbit, tǔ · **What happens:** fall, mean, appear · **To what, where:** rabbit, Mid-Autumn story, soil

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals and "what animal are you?"» of the chinese street 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 (tùzi, Moon Rabbit, tǔ), 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:10
# text = "tùzi" (falling) means rabbit, and a Moon Rabbit appears in the Mid-Autumn story; tǔ (dipping) means soil.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	tùzi	tùzi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
13	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Mid-Autumn	Mid-Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	tǔ	tǔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	dipping	dipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
25	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | tùzi | rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Topic |
| 3 | **appear** | present | a Moon Rabbit |  |  | the Mid-Autumn story |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location |
| 4 | **mean** | present | tǔ | soil |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Topic |

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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:chinese-street:019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.lesson:10`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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