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title: "shuāng shǒu jiē" means "take it with both hands"; both hands show r… — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics
description: "shuāng shǒu jiē" means "take it with both hands"; both hands show respect for a gift, a cup of tea or a red envelope. Who acts: shuāng shǒu jiē, hands. 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
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# Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 16

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"shuāng shǒu jiē" means "take it with both hands"; both hands show respect for a gift, a cup of tea or a red envelope.

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**Who acts:** shuāng shǒu jiē, hands · **What happens:** mean, take, show · **To what, where:** jiē, respect · **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 (shuāng shǒu jiē, hands), 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:16
# text = "shuāng shǒu jiē" means "take it with both hands"; both hands show respect for a gift, a cup of tea or a red envelope.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	shuāng	shuāng	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
3	shǒu	shǒu	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	jiē	jiē	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
18	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	envelope	envelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **mean** | present | shuāng shǒu jiē |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | jiē |  |  |  | with both hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | present | both hands | respect |  |  |  | for a gift and a cup of tea or a red envelope | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient |

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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:16`.

**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 ×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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