Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 3
Watch for the upside-down "fú" (luck) sign on the door: it is upside down on purpose, because dào (upside down) sounds like dào (arrived), so "fú dào le" means "luck has arrived" — don't "fix" it!
Who acts: you, door, upside, dào le, luck · What happens: watch, be, sound, arrive, mean, not fix · To what, where: sign, upside, purpose, dào, door · 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 (you, door, upside, dào le), 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fú | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sign | det |
| 4 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 down | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 down | punct |
| 6 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fú | compound |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fú | punct |
| 8 | fú | fú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fú | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 luck | punct |
| 11 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fú | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 luck | punct |
| 13 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sign | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 upside | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 upside | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 upside | cop |
| 20 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 upside | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 purpose | case |
| 23 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 upside | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sounds | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 31 sounds | mark |
| 26 | dào | dào | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 upside | dep |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 upside | punct |
| 28 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sounds | nsubj |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 28 upside | advmod |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 upside | punct |
| 31 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 upside | advcl |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 dào | case |
| 33 | dào | dào | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sounds | obl |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 arrived | punct |
| 35 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 dào | acl |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 arrived | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 means | punct |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 means | advmod |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 so | punct |
| 40 | fú | fú | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 le | dep |
| 41 | dào | dào | X | _ | 42 le | compound |
| 42 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 means | nsubj |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 le | punct |
| 44 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | parataxis |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 arrived | punct |
| 46 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 arrived | nsubj |
| 47 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 arrived | aux |
| 48 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 means | ccomp |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 arrived | punct |
| 50 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 fix | punct |
| 51 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 54 fix | aux |
| 52 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 54 fix | advmod |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 fix | punct |
| 54 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | parataxis |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 fix | punct |
| 56 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 fix | obj |
| 57 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | the sign on the door | for down fú | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | door | upside | purpose | down property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | sound | present | upside | like dào | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | arrive | participle | dào not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | dào le | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | arrive in a quote | present · perfect | luck | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not fix in a quote | infinitive · do-support | door | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:3.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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