Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 5
"Chūnjié" means the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year; it falls in late January or February by the lunar calendar, not on 1 January.
Who acts: Chūnjié, Festival · What happens: mean, fall · To what, where: Spring Festival
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 (Chūnjié, Festival), 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 Chūnjié | punct |
| 2 | Chūnjié | Chūnjié | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chūnjié | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Festival | det |
| 6 | Spring | Spring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Festival | compound |
| 7 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Year | punct |
| 9 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Year | compound |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Year | amod |
| 11 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Festival | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 falls | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 falls | nsubj |
| 14 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 January | case |
| 16 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 January | amod |
| 17 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 falls | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 February | cc |
| 19 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 January | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 calendar | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 calendar | det |
| 22 | lunar | lunar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 calendar | amod |
| 23 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 falls | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 1 | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 January | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 January | case |
| 27 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 January | nummod |
| 28 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 falls | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Chūnjié | the Spring Festival | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | Festival | january | by the lunar calendar | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by calendar=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:5.
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 ×2. 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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