Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 2

In September or October comes Zhōngqiū jié, the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival: families cut a rich mooncake into small pieces and look at the full moon for the lady Cháng'é and her jade rabbit.

Who acts: Zhōngqiū, families · What happens: come, cut, look · To what, where: rich mooncake, small pieces, full moon

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 (Zhōngqiū, families), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 September	case
2	September	September	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 comes	obl
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 October	cc
4	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 September	conj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Zhōngqiū	Zhōngqiū	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
7	jié	jié	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zhōngqiū	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Festival	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Festival	det
10	Mid-Autumn	Mid-Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Festival	compound
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 Moon	cc
12	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mid-Autumn	conj
13	Festival	Festival	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zhōngqiū	appos
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
15	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cut	nsubj
16	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 comes	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mooncake	det
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mooncake	amod
19	mooncake	mooncake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 pieces	case
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pieces	amod
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cut	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 look	cc
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cut	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 moon	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 moon	det
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 moon	amod
28	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 lady	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lady	det
31	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl
32	Cháng'é	Cháng'é	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 lady	appos
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rabbit	cc
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 rabbit	nmod:poss
35	jade	jade	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rabbit	compound
36	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lady	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Zhōngqiū			september		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut	present	families	a rich mooncake	small pieces			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent mooncake=Material into piece=Product
3	look	infinitive	families not said here		the full moon		for the lady and Festival's jade rabbit	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Location for lady=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:2.

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): R1-cc-next ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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