--- title: The twelve zodiac animals go round in order, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit,… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: The twelve zodiac animals go round in order, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, so the same animal comes back every 12 years. Who acts: twelve zodiac animals, same animal. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve zodiac animals, same animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:14 # text = The twelve zodiac animals go round in order, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, so the same animal comes back every 12 years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nummod 3 zodiac zodiac NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 round round ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Ox Ox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Tiger Tiger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Horse Horse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Goat Goat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:appos 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:appos 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:conj 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:conj 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 39 back back ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 41 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go round** | present | the twelve zodiac animals | | | order | | round *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location | | 2 | **come back** | present | the same animal | | | | year | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: tone detectives and number p…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/13/) - next →: [Olympiad: tone detectives and number p…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/)