Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 13
"shǎng yuè" means looking at the full moon together; the story says the lady Cháng'é lives on the moon with a jade rabbit.
Who acts: shǎng yuè, story, lady · What happens: mean, look, say, live · To what, where: moon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (shǎng yuè, story, lady), 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 | _ | 3 yuè | punct |
| 2 | shǎng | shǎng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yuè | compound |
| 3 | yuè | yuè | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 yuè | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 moon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moon | det |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 moon | amod |
| 10 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 looking | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | nsubj |
| 18 | Cháng'é | Cháng'é | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lady | appos |
| 19 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 says | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 moon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moon | det |
| 22 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 rabbit | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 rabbit | det |
| 25 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rabbit | compound |
| 26 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | shǎng yuè | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look not said to happen | gerund | shǎng yuè not said here | at the full moon; together property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | live | present | the lady | the moon | with a jade rabbit | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with rabbit=Location |
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:13.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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