How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 9

Some Chinese families burn special paper money and paper houses, a sign of caring for ancestors' needs in the next life; it is not real money.

Who acts: Chinese families, sign, ancestors · What happens: burn, not be, sign, need · To what, where: special paper money, real money, caring, next life

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 (Chinese families, sign, ancestors), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 families	det
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 families	amod
3	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burn	nsubj
4	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 money	amod
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	compound
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burn	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 houses	cc
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 houses	compound
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 money	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sign	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sign	det
13	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 caring	case
15	caring	caring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sign	nmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 needs	case
17	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 needs	nmod:poss
18	'	's	PART	_	17 ancestors	case
19	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 caring	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 life	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 life	det
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 life	amod
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 needs	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 money	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 money	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 money	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 money	advmod
28	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 money	amod
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burn	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	burn	present	some Chinese families	special paper money and paper houses and a sign of caring for ancestors's needs in the next life		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	not is a	present	sign	real money		tree rules
3	sign			caring for ancestors's needs in the next life		nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	need		ancestors		the next life	nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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