Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 7
In an old story "nián" was a monster scared away by red and by loud bangs.
Who acts: nián · What happens: be, scare away · To what, where: monster, old story
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 (nián), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 monster | obl |
| 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 | root | root |
| 11 | scared | scare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 monster | acl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 scared | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 red | case |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 scared | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bangs | cc |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 bangs | case |
| 17 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bangs | amod |
| 18 | bangs | bang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 red | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 monster | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | nián | a monster | a old story | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scare away | participle | a monster not said here | by red and loud bangs; away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:7.
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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