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title: 2016 was a Year of the Monkey, 2024 a Year of the Dragon and 2026 a… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and J… · tree and pragmatics
description: 2016 was a Year of the Monkey, 2024 a Year of the Dragon and 2026 a Year of the Horse. Who acts: 2016. 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 with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine, sentence 12

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2016 was a Year of the Monkey, 2024 a Year of the Dragon and 2026 a Year of the Horse.

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**Who acts:** 2016 · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Year

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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 (2016), 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:12
# text = 2016 was a Year of the Monkey, 2024 a Year of the Dragon and 2026 a Year of the Horse.
# 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): no change
1	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | 2016 | a Year and a Year of the Dragon and a Year of the Horse |  |  |  | of the Monkey | tree rules |

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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:world:117-other-calendars.lesson:12`.

**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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