Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 4

One day in early April is not a party at all: Qīngmíng jié, Tomb-Sweeping Day, when families quietly visit and clean the graves of their grandparents and ancestors.

Who acts: One day, families · What happens: not be, visit, clean · To what, where: party, all, graves

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 (One day, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 party	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 April	case
4	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 April	amod
5	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 party	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 party	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 party	det
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 party	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 jié	punct
13	Qīngmíng	Qīngmíng	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 jié	compound
14	jié	jié	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 party	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Sweeping	punct
16	Tomb	tomb	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Sweeping	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Tomb	punct
18	Sweeping	Sweeping	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 jié	appos
19	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Sweeping	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 visit	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 visit	advmod
22	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 visit	nsubj
23	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	24 visit	advmod
24	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Sweeping	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 clean	cc
26	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 visit	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 graves	det
28	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 clean	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 grandparents	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 grandparents	nmod:poss
31	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 graves	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ancestors	cc
33	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grandparents	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 party	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	One day in early April	a party	all		tree rules
2	visit	infinitive	families			quietly property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	clean	present	families not said here	the graves of families's grandparents and ancestors			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grave=Patient

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:4.

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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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