--- title: "Chūnwǎn" is the Spring Festival TV Gala, which families watch on Ne… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics description: "Chūnwǎn" is the Spring Festival TV Gala, which families watch on New Year's Eve; grown-ups complain about it every year and still watch every minute. Who acts: Chūnwǎn, families, grown ups. 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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 (Chūnwǎn, families, grown ups), 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:16 # text = "Chūnwǎn" is the Spring Festival TV Gala, which families watch on New Year's Eve; grown-ups complain about it every year and still watch every minute. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Chūnwǎn Chūnwǎn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 Spring Spring PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Festival Festival PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 TV TV PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Gala Gala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 12 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 complain complain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 still still ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Chūnwǎn | the Festival TV Gala | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **watch** | present | families | the Festival TV Gala | | | on New Year | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **complain** *speech: other* | present | grown ups | | | | year | about family | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 5 | **watch** | present | grown ups *not said here* | | | | still; minute | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | 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:16`. **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: [Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/15/) - next →: [Red envelopes and New Year wishes, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/26-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/)