Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 1
The night before, chúxī, New Year's Eve, is the big one: the whole family folds dumplings together (bāo jiǎozi), eats the reunion dinner (niányèfàn), watches the TV Gala (Chūnwǎn) and tries to stay up past midnight (shǒusuì).
Who acts: chúxī, whole family · What happens: be, fold, eat, watch, try, stay up · To what, where: big one, dumplings, reunion dinner, TV Gala
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» 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 (chúxī, whole family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 night | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 5 | chúxī | chúxī | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Eve | punct |
| 7 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Year | compound |
| 8 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Eve | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Year | case |
| 10 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chúxī | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chúxī | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 family | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 family | amod |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 folds | nsubj |
| 20 | folds | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | parataxis |
| 21 | dumplings | dumpling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 folds | obj |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 folds | advmod |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 bāo | punct |
| 24 | bāo | bāo | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 folds | obj |
| 25 | jiǎozi | jiǎozi | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 bāo | flat:foreign |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 folds | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eats | punct |
| 28 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 folds | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dinner | det |
| 30 | reunion | reunion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dinner | compound |
| 31 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eats | obj |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 niányèfàn | punct |
| 33 | niányèfàn | niányèfàn | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 dinner | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 niányèfàn | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 watches | punct |
| 36 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 folds | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Gala | det |
| 38 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Gala | compound |
| 39 | Gala | Gala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 watches | obj |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 Chūnwǎn | punct |
| 41 | Chūnwǎn | Chūnwǎn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Gala | appos |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 Chūnwǎn | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 tries | cc |
| 44 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 folds | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 stay | mark |
| 46 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 tries | xcomp |
| 47 | up | up | ADP | _ | 46 stay | compound:prt |
| 48 | past | past | ADP | _ | 49 midnight | case |
| 49 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 stay | obl |
| 50 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 51 shǒusuì | punct |
| 51 | shǒusuì | shǒusuì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 midnight | appos |
| 52 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 51 shǒusuì | punct |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
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 | is a | present | chúxī | the big one | night | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fold | present | the whole family | dumplings | together property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dumpling=Patient bāo=Result | |||
| 3 | eat | present | the whole family not said here | the reunion dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | ||||
| 4 | watch | present | the whole family not said here | the TV Gala | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gala=Theme | ||||
| 5 | try | present | the whole family not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | stay up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the whole family not said here | midnight | vn exist-47.1 «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, 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:025-spring-festival.lesson:1.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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