Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 16

"Qīngmíng jié" is Tomb-Sweeping Day in early April, a quiet, respectful day of visiting family graves; you don't say "happy Qingming".

Who acts: Qīngmíng jié, quiet respectful day, you · What happens: be, visit, not say · To what, where: Tomb Sweeping Day, family graves, happy Qingming · 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 (Qīngmíng jié, quiet respectful day, you), 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 jié	punct
2	Qīngmíng	Qīngmíng	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 jié	compound
3	jié	jié	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Day	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 jié	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Day	cop
6	Tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Day	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Day	punct
8	Sweeping	Sweeping	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Day	flat
9	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 April	case
11	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 April	amod
12	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Day	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 day	det
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
17	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Day	appos
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 visiting	mark
20	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 day	acl
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 graves	compound
22	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 visiting	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 say	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 say	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 say	advmod
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Day	parataxis
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Qingming	punct
29	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Qingming	amod
30	Qingming	Qingming	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 say	obj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Qingming	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Day	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	Qīngmíng jié	Tomb Sweeping Day	april	tree rules
2	visit	gerund	a quiet respectful day not said here	family graves		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Co-Agent
3	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	you	happy Qingming		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent qingming=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:16.

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 ×3. 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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