--- title: "bié dāngmiàn chāi" means "don't open it in front of them", a parent… — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics description: "bié dāngmiàn chāi" means "don't open it in front of them", a parent's whispered reminder about presents and red envelopes. Who acts: bié dāngmiàn chāi, parent. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bié dāngmiàn chāi, parent), 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:17 # text = "bié dāngmiàn chāi" means "don't open it in front of them", a parent's whispered reminder about presents and red envelopes. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 bié bié ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 dāngmiàn dāngmiàn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 chāi chāi 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 `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 whispered whisper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 reminder reminder NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 envelopes envelope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | bié dāngmiàn chāi | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **open** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | chāi | | front of gift | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Location | | 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **remind** | | a parent | | | | | about presents and red envelopes | nom reminder «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl | 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. **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:17`. **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): R8-pos-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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