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title: The rules: take it with both hands (shuāng shǒu jiē), say thank you… — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics
description: The rules: take it with both hands (shuāng shǒu jiē), say thank you with a wish, and don't open it in front of the giver (bié dāngmiàn chāi) — in English families you open presents at once, in many Chinese families you wait. Who acts: rules, hands, you. A sentence of the lesson «Red envelopes and Ne
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# Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 1

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The rules: take it with both hands (shuāng shǒu jiē), say thank you with a wish, and don't open it in front of the giver (bié dāngmiàn chāi) — in English families you open presents at once, in many Chinese families you wait.

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**Who acts:** rules, hands, you · **What happens:** take, shuāng, say, thank, not open, open · **To what, where:** hóngbāo, shǒu jiē, you, front, presents, English families · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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 (rules, hands, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:026-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes.lesson:1
# text = The rules: take it with both hands (shuāng shǒu jiē), say thank you with a wish, and don't open it in front of the giver (bié dāngmiàn chāi) — in English families you open presents at once, in many Chinese families you wait.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 026-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes.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	2	det	_	_
2	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	shuāng	shuāng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	shǒu	shǒu	X	FW	_	12	compound	_	_
12	jiē	jiē	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
16	thank	thank	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
33	bié	bié	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	dāngmiàn	dāngmiàn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	chāi	chāi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
43	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	once	once	ADV	RB	_	42	obl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
51	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive | the rules *not said here* | hóngbāo |  |  |  | with both hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **shuāng** | gerund | both hands *not said here* | shǒu jiē |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the rules *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | infinitive | the rules |  | you |  |  | with a wish | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **open** | infinitive · do-support |  | hóngbāo |  | front of the giver |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Location |
| 6 | **open** | present | you | presents |  | English families |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent present=Theme in family=Location |
| 7 | **wait** | present | you |  |  | many Chinese families |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=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, 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.

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