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title: In your own zodiac year, běnmìngnián, some people wear red for luck. — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics
description: In your own zodiac year, běnmìngnián, some people wear red for luck. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 15

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In your own zodiac year, běnmìngnián, some people wear red for luck.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** wear · **To what, where:** red

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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 (people), 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:15
# text = In your own zodiac year, běnmìngnián, some people wear red for luck.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	zodiac	zodiac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
7	běnmìngnián	běnmìngnián	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	red	red	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | some people | red |  |  | year | for luck | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent red=Theme |

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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:026-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes.lesson:15`.

**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. **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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