Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 16
"Chūnwǎn" is the Spring Festival TV Gala, which families watch on New Year's Eve; grown-ups complain about it every year and still watch every minute.
Who acts: Chūnwǎn, families, grown ups · What happens: be, watch, grow, complain · To what, where: Festival 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 (Chūnwǎn, families, grown ups), 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 Chūnwǎn | punct |
| 2 | Chūnwǎn | Chūnwǎn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Gala | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chūnwǎn | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Gala | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Gala | det |
| 6 | Spring | Spring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Festival | compound |
| 7 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Gala | compound |
| 8 | TV | TV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Gala | compound |
| 9 | Gala | Gala | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 watch | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 watch | obj |
| 12 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 watch | nsubj |
| 13 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Gala | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Year | case |
| 15 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Year | amod |
| 16 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 watch | obl |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Year | case |
| 18 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Year | flat |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 complain | punct |
| 20 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ups | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 grown | punct |
| 22 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 complain | nsubj |
| 23 | complain | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Gala | parataxis |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 complain | obl |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 year | det |
| 27 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 complain | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 watch | cc |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 watch | advmod |
| 30 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 complain | conj |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 minute | det |
| 32 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 watch | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gala | 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 | Chūnwǎn | the Festival TV Gala | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | present | families | the Festival TV Gala | on New Year | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | complain speech: other | present | grown ups | year | about family | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||
| 5 | watch | present | grown ups not said here | still; minute | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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:16.
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. 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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