How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 8

Qingming, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, falls in early April; Chinese families clean their ancestors' graves and bring food and flowers.

Who acts: Qingming, Chinese families · What happens: fall, clean, bring · To what, where: graves, food

This is a sentence of the lesson «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» of the religion ethics 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 (Qingming, Chinese 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	Qingming	Qingming	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 falls	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Day	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 Day	cc
4	Tomb	tomb	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sweeping	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Tomb	punct
6	Sweeping	Sweeping	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Day	compound
7	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Qingming	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Qingming	punct
9	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 April	case
11	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 April	amod
12	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 falls	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 falls	punct
14	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 families	amod
15	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 clean	nsubj
16	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 falls	parataxis
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ancestors	nmod:poss
18	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 graves	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 ancestors	case
20	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 clean	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bring	cc
22	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 clean	conj
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flowers	cc
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 food	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 falls	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	fall	present	Qingming or Sweeping Day		april	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	clean	present	Chinese families	Qingming's ancestors's graves		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grave=Patient
3	bring	present	Chinese families not said here	food and flowers		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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:religion-ethics:065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.lesson:8.

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 ×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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