Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 15
"chángshòumiàn" are longevity noodles eaten on birthdays, especially grandparents'; you don't cut or bite them short, because long noodles mean long life.
Who acts: chángshòumiàn, you, long noodles · What happens: be, eat, not cut, bite, mean · To what, where: longevity noodles, birthdays, long life
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 (chángshòumiàn, you, long noodles), 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 chángshòumiàn | punct |
| 2 | chángshòumiàn | chángshòumiàn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 noodles | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 chángshòumiàn | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 noodles | cop |
| 5 | longevity | longevity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noodles | compound |
| 6 | noodles | noodle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 noodles | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 birthdays | case |
| 9 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eaten | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 birthdays | punct |
| 11 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 grandparents | advmod |
| 12 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 birthdays | appos |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 grandparents | case |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 noodles | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 cut | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 cut | advmod |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 noodles | parataxis |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 bite | cc |
| 20 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 cut | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bite | obj |
| 22 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cut | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mean | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 mean | mark |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 noodles | amod |
| 26 | noodles | noodle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 mean | nsubj |
| 27 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | advcl |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 life | amod |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mean | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noodles | 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 | is a | present | chángshòumiàn | longevity noodles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | participle | longevity noodles not said here | birthdays | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not cut | present · do-support | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | bite | infinitive | you not said here | Birthdays = birthday | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | long noodles | long life | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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