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title: The zodiac year begins at Chinese New Year (late January or February… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: The zodiac year begins at Chinese New Year (late January or February), so someone born in early January belongs to the year before. Who acts: zodiac year, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Animals and "what animal are you?"» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 17

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The zodiac year begins at Chinese New Year (late January or February), so someone born in early January belongs to the year before.

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**Who acts:** zodiac year, someone · **What happens:** begin, bear, belong

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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 (zodiac year, someone), 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:17
# text = The zodiac year begins at Chinese New Year (late January or February), so someone born in early January belongs 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	zodiac	zodiac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	amod	_	_
8	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
10	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
17	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
18	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | the zodiac year |  |  |  | at Chinese New Year |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  | january |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **belong** | present | someone |  |  |  | year | before *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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