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title: "chúxī" means New Year's Eve, the most important evening; in some ho… — Spring Festival — Chinese New Year · tree and pragmatics
description: "chúxī" means New Year's Eve, the most important evening; in some homes nobody sweeps the floor that day, so as not to sweep the luck away. Who acts: chúxī, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 9

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"chúxī" means New Year's Eve, the most important evening; in some homes nobody sweeps the floor that day, so as not to sweep the luck away.

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**Who acts:** chúxī, nobody · **What happens:** mean, sweep, not sweep away · **To what, where:** Eve, floor, homes, luck

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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 (chúxī, nobody), 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:9
# text = "chúxī" means New Year's Eve, the most important evening; in some homes nobody sweeps the floor that day, so as not to sweep the luck away.
# 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 ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	chúxī	chúxī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	amod	_	_
6	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sweeps	sweep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | chúxī | New Year's Eve |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eve=Topic |
| 2 | **sweep** | present | nobody | the floor |  | some homes | day |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent floor=Theme in home=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **sweep away** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | the luck |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme luck=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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**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:9`.

**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 ×2. **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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