Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 15
"wǔ shī" is the lion dance at parades and shop openings; the lion "eats" lettuce and red envelopes hung up by shops.
Who acts: wǔ shī, lion · What happens: be, eat, hang up · To what, where: lion dance, parades, lettuce · 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 (wǔ shī, lion), 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 | _ | 2 wǔ | punct |
| 2 | wǔ | wǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shī | compound |
| 3 | shī | shī | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dance | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shī | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dance | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dance | det |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dance | compound |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 parades | case |
| 10 | parades | parade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dance | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 openings | cc |
| 12 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 openings | compound |
| 13 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 parades | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 lettuce | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lion | det |
| 16 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eats | nsubj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 eats | punct |
| 18 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dance | parataxis |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 eats | punct |
| 20 | lettuce | lettuce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eats | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 envelopes | cc |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 envelopes | amod |
| 23 | envelopes | envelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lettuce | conj |
| 24 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 lettuce | acl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 hung | compound:prt |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 shops | case |
| 27 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hung | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | wǔ shī | the lion dance | parades and shop openings | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | present | the lion | lettuce and red envelopes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hang up | participle | lettuce and red envelopes not said here | by shops | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by shop=Location |
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: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): 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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