Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 17

"bié dāngmiàn chāi" means "don't open it in front of them", a parent's whispered reminder about presents and red envelopes.

Who acts: bié dāngmiàn chāi, parent · What happens: mean, not open, whisper, remind · To what, where: chāi, front · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bié dāngmiàn chāi, parent), 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	_	4 chāi	punct
2	bié	bié	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chāi	amod
3	dāngmiàn	dāngmiàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chāi	compound
4	chāi	chāi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 chāi	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 open	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 open	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 open	advmod
10	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 open	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 front	case
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 open	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 front	nmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 open	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reminder	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 parent	det
19	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reminder	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 parent	case
21	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 reminder	amod
22	reminder	reminder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	conj
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 presents	case
24	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 reminder	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 envelopes	cc
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 envelopes	amod
27	envelopes	envelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 presents	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	bié dāngmiàn chāi				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not open in a quote	infinitive · do-support		chāi	front of gift		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Location
3	whisper speech: assert	participle					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	remind		a parent			about presents and red envelopes	nom reminder «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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:17.

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): R8-pos-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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