--- title: The Chinese zodiac has 12 animals in order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit,… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and J… · tree and pragmatics description: The Chinese zodiac has 12 animals in order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig; the cycle repeats every 12 years. Who acts: Chinese zodiac, cycle. A sentence of the lesson «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Uk --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/117-other-calendars/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Isl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/117-other-calendars/) / 11 # Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine, sentence 11 The Chinese zodiac has 12 animals in order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig; the cycle repeats every 12 years. **Who acts:** Chinese zodiac, cycle · **What happens:** have, repeat · **To what, where:** 12 animals, order This is a sentence of the lesson «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» of the world 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 zodiac, cycle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:117-other-calendars.lesson:11 # text = The Chinese zodiac has 12 animals in order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig; the cycle repeats every 12 years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 117-other-calendars.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 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 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Tiger Tiger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Horse horse NOUN NN 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 _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 cycle cycle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 repeats repeat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 37 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 38 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the Chinese zodiac | 12 animals | | order | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | | 2 | **repeat** | present | the cycle | | | | year | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:world:117-other-calendars.lesson:11`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Isl…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/117-other-calendars/9/) - next →: [Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Isl…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/117-other-calendars/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/117-other-calendars/)