--- title: "lóng" (rising) means dragon; Chinese dragons are lucky, wise and br… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: "lóng" (rising) means dragon; Chinese dragons are lucky, wise and bring rain. Who acts: lóng, Chinese dragons. 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 of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/14/) [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/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Animals and "what animal are you?"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/) / 14 # Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 14 "lóng" (rising) means dragon; Chinese dragons are lucky, wise and bring rain. **Who acts:** lóng, Chinese dragons · **What happens:** mean, be, bring · **To what, where:** dragon, rain 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 (lóng, Chinese dragons), 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:14 # text = "lóng" (rising) means dragon; Chinese dragons are lucky, wise and bring rain. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 lóng lóng NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 5 rising rising NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 10 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **mean** | present | lóng | dragon | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | Chinese dragons | | | | | lucky *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Chinese dragons *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bring** | present | Chinese dragons *not said here* | rain | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=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:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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