Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 4
The famous joke: parents keep the yāsuìqián, the New Year money, "safe" for the child — and it never comes back.
Who acts: parents, yāsuìqián · What happens: keep, not come back · To what, where: yāsuìqián
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 (parents, yāsuìqián), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 joke | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 joke | amod |
| 3 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 joke | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 yāsuìqián | det |
| 8 | yāsuìqián | yāsuìqián | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 money | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 money | det |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 12 Year | compound |
| 12 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 money | compound |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yāsuìqián | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 safe | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 safe | punct |
| 16 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 safe | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 safe | obl |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 comes | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 comes | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 comes | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 comes | advmod |
| 25 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 comes | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joke | 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 | keep | present | parents | the yāsuìqián | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yāsuìqián=Theme | |||
| 2 | not come back | present | yāsuìqián | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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