Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 7
"hóngbāo ná lái" is a joke rhyme, "hand over the red envelope!", funny with your own close family but greedy-sounding with a friend's family.
Who acts: ná lái · What happens: be, hand, sound · To what, where: joke rhyme, red envelope
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 (ná lái), 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 lái | punct |
| 2 | hóngbāo | hóngbāo | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 lái | dep |
| 3 | ná | ná | X | _ | 4 lái | compound |
| 4 | lái | lái | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rhyme | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lái | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rhyme | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rhyme | det |
| 8 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rhyme | compound |
| 9 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hand | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 hand | punct |
| 12 | hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 rhyme | appos |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 envelope | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 envelope | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 envelope | amod |
| 16 | envelope | envelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rhyme | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 envelope | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 envelope | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 funny | punct |
| 20 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rhyme | amod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 family | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 family | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 family | amod |
| 24 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 family | amod |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 funny | obl |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 sounding | cc |
| 27 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sounding | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 greedy | punct |
| 29 | sounding | sound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 family | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 family | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 friend | det |
| 32 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 family | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 friend | case |
| 34 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sounding | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rhyme | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ná lái | a joke rhyme | the red envelope | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hand in a quote | infinitive | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sound | gerund | ná lái not said here | with a friend's family | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with family=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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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