Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 9

"zòngzi" are sticky rice parcels wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied with string; you don't eat the leaves, and sweet versus salty filling starts north–south family arguments.

Who acts: zòngzi, you, sweet salty filling · What happens: be, wrap, tie, not eat, start · To what, where: sticky rice parcels, bamboo leaves, leaves, south family arguments

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 (zòngzi, you, sweet salty filling), 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 zòngzi	punct
2	zòngzi	zòngzi	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 parcels	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 zòngzi	punct
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 parcels	cop
5	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parcels	amod
6	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 parcels	compound
7	parcels	parcel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 parcels	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
10	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	compound
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wrapped	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tied	cc
13	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wrapped	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 string	case
15	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tied	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 eat	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 eat	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 eat	advmod
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 parcels	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 leaves	det
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 starts	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 starts	cc
25	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 filling	amod
26	versus	versus	ADP	_	28 filling	case
27	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 filling	amod
28	filling	filling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 starts	nsubj
29	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 eat	conj
30	north	north	ADJ	_	32 south	amod
31	–	-	PUNCT	_	32 south	punct
32	south	south	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 arguments	amod
33	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 arguments	compound
34	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 starts	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 parcels	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	zòngzi	sticky rice parcels			tree rules
2	wrap	participle		sticky rice parcels not said here	bamboo leaves		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in leaf=Destination
3	tie	participle				with string	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with string=Co-Patient
4	not eat	present · do-support	you	the leaves			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
5	start	present	sweet salty filling	south family arguments			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Eventuality

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:9.

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): R6-punct-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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