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title: The one wish everybody needs is "xīnnián kuàilè!" (SHIN-nyen KWIGH-l… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics
description: The one wish everybody needs is "xīnnián kuàilè!" (SHIN-nyen KWIGH-luh), Happy New Year — say it to every member of Lín's family the moment you walk in. Who acts: everybody, you. A sentence of the lesson «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 4

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The one wish everybody needs is "xīnnián kuàilè!" (SHIN-nyen KWIGH-luh), Happy New Year — say it to every member of Lín's family the moment you walk in.

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**Who acts:** everybody, you · **What happens:** need, nyen, say, walk in · **To what, where:** one wish, KWIGH, wish, member, moment · **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 (everybody, you), 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:4
# text = The one wish everybody needs is "xīnnián kuàilè!" (SHIN-nyen KWIGH-luh), Happy New Year — say it to every member of Lín's family the moment you walk in.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
5	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	xīnnián	xīnnián	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
9	kuàilè	kuàilè	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
13	SHIN	shin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	nyen	nyen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	dep	_	_
16	KWIGH	KWIGH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	luh	luh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	23	amod	_	_
23	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	in	in	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	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 | **need** | present | everybody | the one wish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wish=Theme |
| 2 | **nyen** | participle |  | KWIGH |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | wish | every member of Lín's family |  | moment |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to member=Recipient |
| 4 | **walk in** | present | you | the moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moment=Trajectory |

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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, 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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