Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 6

"tāngyuán" are sweet rice balls in warm syrup, often with black sesame inside; their round shape means the family together, and they are hot inside.

Who acts: tāngyuán, round shape, families · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: sweet rice balls, warm syrup, family

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 (tāngyuán, round shape, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tāngyuán	punct
2	tāngyuán	tāngyuán	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 balls	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tāngyuán	punct
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 balls	cop
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 balls	amod
6	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 balls	compound
7	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 syrup	case
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 syrup	amod
10	syrup	syrup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 balls	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sesame	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	15 sesame	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 sesame	case
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sesame	amod
15	sesame	sesame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 syrup	conj
16	inside	inside	ADV	_	15 sesame	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shape	nmod:poss
19	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shape	amod
20	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 means	nsubj
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 balls	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 family	det
23	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 means	obj
24	together	together	ADV	_	23 family	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hot	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hot	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hot	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hot	cop
29	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 means	conj
30	inside	inside	ADV	_	29 hot	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 balls	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	tāngyuán	sweet rice balls	warm syrup and black sesame		tree rules
2	mean	present	syrup's round shape	the family			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Topic
3	is	present	families = family			hot, inside property	tree rules

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:6.

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): 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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