Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 3

Birthdays have their own food: chángshòumiàn, long-life noodles — don't bite them short, slurp them whole, because long noodles mean long life.

Who acts: Birthdays, long noodles · What happens: have, not bite, slurp, mean · To what, where: own food, food, 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 (Birthdays, 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	Birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 chángshòumiàn	punct
7	chángshòumiàn	chángshòumiàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 noodles	punct
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 life	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 noodles	compound
12	noodles	noodle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 food	conj
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 bite	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 bite	advmod
16	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bite	obj
18	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bite	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 slurp	punct
20	slurp	slurp	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 bite	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 slurp	obj
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 slurp	xcomp
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	20 slurp	parataxis
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 life	amod
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mean	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Birthdays	Birthdays's own food and life noodles		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	not bite	infinitive · do-support		food	short property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	slurp	infinitive		food	whole property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	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:3.

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 ×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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