--- title: "fàng biānpào" means setting off firecrackers, at midnight in China… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics description: "fàng biānpào" means setting off firecrackers, at midnight in China and at Chinatown parades in Britain; firecrackers are for grown-ups, and the noise can scare small kids and dogs. Who acts: fàng biānpào, firecrackers, noise. 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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 (fàng biānpào, firecrackers, noise), 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:12 # text = "fàng biānpào" means setting off firecrackers, at midnight in China and at Chinatown parades in Britain; firecrackers are for grown-ups, and the noise can scare small kids and dogs. # 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): no change 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 fàng fàng ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 biānpào biānpào NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 setting set VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 ccomp _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 firecrackers firecracker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 Chinatown Chinatown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 parades parade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 firecrackers firecracker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 33 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | fàng biānpào | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **set off** | gerund | | firecrackers | | | midnight | | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition firecracker=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | firecrackers | | | | | for grown ups | tree rules | | 5 | **scare** | can | the noise | small kids and dogs | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kid=Experiencer | 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:12`. **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): no change. **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: [Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/11/) - next →: [Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/)