Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 7
"dēnglong" means lantern; "cāi dēngmí", guessing riddles written on lanterns, is a Lantern Festival game.
Who acts: dēnglong, guessing · What happens: mean, guess, write, be · To what, where: lantern, riddles, lanterns, Festival game · 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 (dēnglong, guessing), 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 dēnglong | punct |
| 2 | dēnglong | dēnglong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 dēnglong | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 dēngmí | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cāi | punct |
| 8 | cāi | cāi | X | _ | 9 dēngmí | compound |
| 9 | dēngmí | dēngmí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dēngmí | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guessing | punct |
| 12 | guessing | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 game | csubj |
| 13 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 guessing | obj |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 riddles | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 lanterns | case |
| 16 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 written | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guessing | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 game | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 game | det |
| 20 | Lantern | Lantern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Festival | compound |
| 21 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 game | compound |
| 22 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | dēnglong | lantern | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | guess | gerund | riddles | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | write | participle | riddles not said here | lanterns | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on lantern=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | guessing | a Festival game | 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:7.
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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