--- title: The Chinese zodiac counts years in a 12-year cycle of animals: rat,… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics description: The Chinese zodiac counts years in a 12-year cycle of animals: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig; the idea that your animal decides your character is tradition and fun, not science. Who acts: Chinese zodiac, animal, idea. 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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 (Chinese zodiac, animal, idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:15 # text = The Chinese zodiac counts years in a 12-year cycle of animals: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig; the idea that your animal decides your character is tradition and fun, not science. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 zodiac zodiac NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 12-year 12-year ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi 9 amod _ _ 9 cycle cycle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 mark _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl _ _ 43 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:obj 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 51 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | the Chinese zodiac | | | a 12-year cycle of animals and rat and ox and tiger and rabbit | year | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **decide** | present | your animal | your character | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent character=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | the idea | tradition and fun and science | | | | | tree rules | 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:history:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:15`. **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, R6-punct-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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