Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 12

"fàng biānpào" means setting off firecrackers, at midnight in China and at Chinatown parades in Britain; firecrackers are for grown-ups, and the noise can scare small kids and dogs.

Who acts: fàng biānpào, firecrackers, noise · What happens: mean, set off, grow, be, scare · To what, where: firecrackers, small kids · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fàng biānpào, firecrackers, noise), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 biānpào	punct
2	fàng	fàng	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 biānpào	amod
3	biānpào	biānpào	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 biānpào	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	ccomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 setting	compound:prt
8	firecrackers	firecracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 setting	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 midnight	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 midnight	case
11	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 setting	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 China	case
13	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 midnight	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 parades	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 parades	case
16	Chinatown	Chinatown	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 parades	compound
17	parades	parade	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 midnight	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 Britain	case
19	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 parades	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 firecrackers	punct
21	firecrackers	firecracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ups	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 ups	cop
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 ups	case
24	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 ups	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 grown	punct
26	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 scare	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 scare	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 noise	det
30	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scare	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 scare	aux
32	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 setting	conj
33	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 kids	amod
34	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 scare	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 dogs	cc
36	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 kids	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	fàng biānpào				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	set off	gerund		firecrackers	midnight		vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition firecracker=Patient
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	firecrackers			for grown ups	tree rules
5	scare	can	the noise	small kids and dogs			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kid=Experiencer

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: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.

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