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title: The twelve zodiac animals in order are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Drago… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: The twelve zodiac animals in order are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig; the Rat comes first and is thought clever. Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «Animals and "what animal are you?"» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 16

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The twelve zodiac animals in order are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig; the Rat comes first and is thought clever.

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** be, come, think · **To what, where:** Rat

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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 (Rat), 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:16
# text = The twelve zodiac animals in order are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig; the Rat comes first and is thought clever.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-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	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Ox	Ox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	34	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:cop
38	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
39	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Rat and Ox  Tiger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V» |

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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:16`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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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