Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 2

An old story says "nián" was a monster scared away by the colour red and loud bangs — so there are red couplets by the door, red lanterns and firecrackers.

Who acts: old story, nián, red couplets · What happens: say, be, scare away · To what, where: monster · 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 (old story, nián, red couplets), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 nián	punct
6	nián	nián	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 monster	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 nián	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 monster	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 monster	det
10	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
11	scared	scare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 monster	acl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 scared	advmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 red	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 red	det
15	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 red	compound
16	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scared	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bangs	cc
18	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bangs	amod
19	bangs	bang	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 red	conj
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 are	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 are	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 are	expl
23	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 couplets	amod
25	couplets	couplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 are	nsubj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 couplets	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lanterns	punct
30	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lanterns	amod
31	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 couplets	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 firecrackers	cc
33	firecrackers	firecracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lanterns	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a old story				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	nián	a monster			tree rules
3	scare away	participle		a monster not said here		by the colour red and loud bangs; away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	does	present	red couplets by the door and red lanterns and firecrackers		there		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:2.

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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