Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 14
"shēngrì kuàilè" means happy birthday; "zhù nǐ shēngrì kuàilè" is sung to the same tune as the English song.
Who acts: kuàilè · What happens: mean, shēngrì, sing · To what, where: happy birthday, same tune · 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 (kuàilè), 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 kuàilè | punct |
| 2 | shēngrì | shēngrì | ADV | _ | 3 kuàilè | advmod |
| 3 | kuàilè | kuàilè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 kuàilè | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birthday | amod |
| 7 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 shēngrì | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 shēngrì | punct |
| 10 | zhù | zhù | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 shēngrì | aux |
| 11 | nǐ | nǐ | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 shēngrì | advmod |
| 12 | shēngrì | shēngrì | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 means | conj |
| 13 | kuàilè | kuàilè | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kuàilè | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sung | aux:pass |
| 16 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 shēngrì | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 tune | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tune | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tune | amod |
| 20 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sung | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 song | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 song | det |
| 23 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 song | amod |
| 24 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tune | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | kuàilè | happy birthday | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shēngrì in a quote | infinitive | kuàilè not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present · passive | the same tune as the English song | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: to tune=Recipient |
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:14.
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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