Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 10
"sài lóngzhōu" means dragon boat racing; the drummer at the front sets the beat, and there are races in British cities too.
Who acts: sài, drummer, races · What happens: mean, set, be · To what, where: boat racing, beat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» 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 (sài, drummer, races), 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 sài | punct |
| 2 | sài | sài | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 means | nsubj |
| 3 | lóngzhōu | lóngzhōu | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 sài | flat |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sài | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boat | compound |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 racing | compound |
| 8 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 drummer | det |
| 11 | drummer | drummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sets | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 front | det |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drummer | nmod |
| 15 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beat | det |
| 17 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sets | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 are | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 are | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 are | expl |
| 21 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sets | conj |
| 22 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 are | nsubj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 cities | case |
| 24 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cities | amod |
| 25 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 races | nmod |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 are | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | sài | boat racing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent racing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | set | present | the drummer at the front | the beat | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient beat=Result | ||||
| 3 | does | present | races in British cities | there | vn exist-47.1 «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:027-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays.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): R5-strong ×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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