Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 9

"chúxī" means New Year's Eve, the most important evening; in some homes nobody sweeps the floor that day, so as not to sweep the luck away.

Who acts: chúxī, nobody · What happens: mean, sweep, not sweep away · To what, where: Eve, floor, homes, luck

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 (chúxī, nobody), 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 chúxī	punct
2	chúxī	chúxī	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 chúxī	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Year	amod
6	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Eve	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Year	case
8	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 evening	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 evening	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 important	advmod
12	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 evening	amod
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Eve	appos
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sweeps	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 homes	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 homes	det
17	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sweeps	obl
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 sweeps	nsubj
19	sweeps	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 floor	det
21	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sweeps	obj
22	that	that	DET	PronType=Dem	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sweeps	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sweep	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	_	29 sweep	mark
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 sweep	mark
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 sweep	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sweep	mark
29	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sweeps	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 luck	det
31	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sweep	obj
32	away	away	ADV	_	29 sweep	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	chúxī	New Year's Eve				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eve=Topic
2	sweep	present	nobody	the floor	some homes	day		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent floor=Theme in home=Trajectory
3	not sweep away	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	the luck			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme luck=Trajectory

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:9.

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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