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title: "chūnlián" are red New Year couplets, poems on red paper put up by t… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics
description: "chūnlián" are red New Year couplets, poems on red paper put up by the door before New Year. Who acts: chūnlián. A sentence of the lesson «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 13

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"chūnlián" are red New Year couplets, poems on red paper put up by the door before New Year.

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**Who acts:** chūnlián · **What happens:** be, put up · **To what, where:** red Year couplets, poems

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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 (chūnlián), 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:13
# text = "chūnlián" are red New Year couplets, poems on red paper put up by the door before New Year.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	chūnlián	chūnlián	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	couplets	couplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | chūnlián | red Year couplets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put up** | participle |  | poems on red paper *not said here* |  |  | before New Year | by the door | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by door=Destination |

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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.

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**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:13`.

**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, 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/).

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