--- title: The night before, chúxī, New Year's Eve, is the big one: the whole f… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics description: The night before, chúxī, New Year's Eve, is the big one: the whole family folds dumplings together (bāo jiǎozi), eats the reunion dinner (niányèfàn), watches the TV Gala (Chūnwǎn) and tries to stay up past midnight (shǒusuì). Who acts: chúxī, whole family. A sentence of the lesson «Spring Festival — --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Spring Festival — Chinese New Year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/) / 1 # Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 1 The night before, chúxī, New Year's Eve, is the big one: the whole family folds dumplings together (bāo jiǎozi), eats the reunion dinner (niányèfàn), watches the TV Gala (Chūnwǎn) and tries to stay up past midnight (shǒusuì). **Who acts:** chúxī, whole family · **What happens:** be, fold, eat, watch, try, stay up · **To what, where:** big one, dumplings, reunion dinner, TV Gala This is a sentence of the lesson «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» 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 (chúxī, whole family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:025-spring-festival.lesson:1 # text = The night before, chúxī, New Year's Eve, is the big one: the whole family folds dumplings together (bāo jiǎozi), eats the reunion dinner (niányèfàn), watches the TV Gala (Chūnwǎn) and tries to stay up past midnight (shǒusuì). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 025-spring-festival.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 before before ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 5 chúxī chúxī PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 folds fold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:acl:relcl 21 dumplings dumpling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 together together ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 bāo bāo X FW Foreign=Yes 20 obj _ _ 25 jiǎozi jiǎozi X FW Foreign=Yes 24 flat:foreign _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 reunion reunion NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 33 niányèfàn niányèfàn X FW Foreign=Yes 31 appos _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 39 Gala Gala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 41 Chūnwǎn Chūnwǎn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=36:cc 44 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=36:conj 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 up up ADP RP _ 46 compound:prt _ _ 48 past past ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 50 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 51 punct _ _ 51 shǒusuì shǒusuì NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 appos _ _ 52 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 51 punct _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | chúxī | the big one | | | night | | tree rules | | 2 | **fold** | present | the whole family | dumplings | | | | together *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dumpling=Patient bāo=Result | | 3 | **eat** | present | the whole family *not said here* | the reunion dinner | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | | 4 | **watch** | present | the whole family *not said here* | the TV Gala | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gala=Theme | | 5 | **try** | present | the whole family *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **stay up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the whole family *not said here* | | | | midnight | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:chinese-street:025-spring-festival.lesson:1`. **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, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Words that hurt — what they mean, neve…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/15/) - next →: [Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/)