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title: "wǔ shī" is the lion dance at parades and shop openings; the lion "e… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics
description: "wǔ shī" is the lion dance at parades and shop openings; the lion "eats" lettuce and red envelopes hung up by shops. Who acts: wǔ shī, lion. 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
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# Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 15

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"wǔ shī" is the lion dance at parades and shop openings; the lion "eats" lettuce and red envelopes hung up by shops.

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**Who acts:** wǔ shī, lion · **What happens:** be, eat, hang up · **To what, where:** lion dance, parades, lettuce · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wǔ shī, lion), 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:15
# text = "wǔ shī" is the lion dance at parades and shop openings; the lion "eats" lettuce and red envelopes hung up by shops.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	wǔ	wǔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shī	shī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	parades	parade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	openings	opening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	envelopes	envelope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | wǔ shī | the lion dance |  | parades and shop openings |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | the lion | lettuce and red envelopes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Patient |
| 3 | **hang up** | participle |  | lettuce and red envelopes *not said here* |  |  |  | by shops | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by shop=Location |

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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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**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): R6-punct-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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