--- title: Watch for the upside-down "fú" (luck) sign on the door: it is upside… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics description: Watch for the upside-down "fú" (luck) sign on the door: it is upside down on purpose, because dào (upside down) sounds like dào (arrived), so "fú dào le" means "luck has arrived" — don't "fix" it! Who acts: you, door, upside, dào le. 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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 (you, door, upside, dào le), 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:3 # text = Watch for the upside-down "fú" (luck) sign on the door: it is upside down on purpose, because dào (upside down) sounds like dào (arrived), so "fú dào le" means "luck has arrived" — don't "fix" it! # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 4 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 down down NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 fú fú NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 21 down down ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 dào dào X FW Foreign=Yes 28 dep _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 28 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 down down ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 31 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 dào dào NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 35 arrived arrive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 40 fú fú X FW Foreign=Yes 42 dep _ _ 41 dào dào X FW _ 42 compound _ _ 42 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 46 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 47 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 arrived arrive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 ccomp _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 — - PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 52 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 53 " " PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ _ 54 fix fix VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ _ 56 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 57 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sign on the door | | | | for down fú | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | door | upside | | purpose | | down *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sound** | present | upside | | | | | like dào | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **arrive** | participle | | dào *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | dào le | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **arrive** *in a quote* | present · perfect | luck | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **fix** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | door | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:3`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/2/) - next →: [Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/25-spring-festival/)