--- title: In the Chinese lion dance two dancers play one lion, moving to drums… — Dances of the world and dancing at parties · tree and pragmatics description: In the Chinese lion dance two dancers play one lion, moving to drums and cymbals, sometimes jumping on poles; it is said to bring luck. Who acts: two dancers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two dancers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:6 # text = In the Chinese lion dance two dancers play one lion, moving to drums and cymbals, sometimes jumping on poles; it is said to bring luck. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 dancers dancer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 cymbals cymbal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 19 advmod _ _ 19 jumping jump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 parataxis _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | two dancers | one lion | | the Chinese lion dance | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme | | 2 | **move** | gerund | two dancers *not said here* | | | drums and cymbals | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to drum=Trajectory | | 3 | **jump** | gerund | | | | poles | | sometimes *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pole=Trajectory | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | lion | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bring** | to-infinitive | | luck | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dances of the world and dancing at par…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/5/) - next →: [Dances of the world and dancing at par…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/)