Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 10

"xuéyè jìnbù" means "progress at school", a wish elders give to children; you answer "xièxie" and don't wish it back to elders.

Who acts: xuéyè jìnbù, elders, you · What happens: mean, give, answer, not wish · To what, where: progress, school, wish, children, xièxie

This is a sentence of the lesson «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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 (xuéyè jìnbù, elders, you), 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 xuéyè	punct
2	xuéyè	xuéyè	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jìnbù	compound
3	jìnbù	jìnbù	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 jìnbù	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 progress	punct
7	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 progress	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 progress	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wish	det
13	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 progress	appos
14	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 give	nsubj
15	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wish	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 children	case
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 give	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 answer	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 answer	nsubj
20	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 xièxie	punct
22	xièxie	xièxie	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answer	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 xièxie	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wish	cc
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 wish	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 wish	advmod
27	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answer	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wish	obj
29	back	back	ADV	_	27 wish	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 elders	case
31	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 back	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	xuéyè jìnbù	progress		school	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Topic
2	give	present	elders	a wish not said here	children		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wish=Theme to child=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	present	you	xièxie			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent xièxie=Eventuality
4	not wish	present · do-support	you not said here	xièxie			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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:026-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes.lesson:10.

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 ×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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