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title: Chinese dragons, lóng, are lucky and wise and bring rain — not the f… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: Chinese dragons, lóng, are lucky and wise and bring rain — not the fire-breathing baddies of English stories. Who acts: 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 
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# Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 4

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Chinese dragons, lóng, are lucky and wise and bring rain — not the fire-breathing baddies of English stories.

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**Who acts:** Chinese dragons · **What happens:** be, bring, breathe · **To what, where:** rain, baddies

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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 (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:4
# text = Chinese dragons, lóng, are lucky and wise and bring rain — not the fire-breathing baddies of English stories.
# 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	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	lóng	lóng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
19	baddies	baddie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Chinese dragons and lóng |  |  |  |  | lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Chinese dragons and lóng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | present | Chinese dragons and lóng *not said here* | rain  the fire |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
| 4 | **breathe** | gerund | Chinese dragons and lóng *not said here* | baddies of English stories |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baddie=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:4`.

**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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