--- title: Chinese wishes come in neat sets of four syllables: "gōngxǐ fācái" (… — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics description: Chinese wishes come in neat sets of four syllables: "gōngxǐ fācái" (wishing you wealth and luck), "shēntǐ jiànkāng" (good health), "wànshì rúyì" (may everything go as you wish), "xuéyè jìnbù" (progress at school, a wish for pupils). Who acts: Chinese wishes, everything, you. 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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 (Chinese wishes, everything, 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:2 # text = Chinese wishes come in neat sets of four syllables: "gōngxǐ fācái" (wishing you wealth and luck), "shēntǐ jiànkāng" (good health), "wànshì rúyì" (may everything go as you wish), "xuéyè jìnbù" (progress at school, a wish for pupils). # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sets set NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 syllables syllable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 gōngxǐ gōngxǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 3 parataxis _ _ 13 fācái fācái X FW Foreign=Yes 12 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 wishing wish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 22 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 shēntǐ shēntǐ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 jiànkāng jiànkāng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 28 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 33 wànshì wànshì VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 rúyì rúyì NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 37 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 39 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:compound 39 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 advcl _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 46 xuéyè xuéyè VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 parataxis _ _ 47 jìnbù jìnbù NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 49 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 50 progress progress NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 51 at at ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:conj 56 for for ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nmod _ _ 58 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Chinese wishes | | | neat sets of four syllables | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wish** | gerund | Chinese wishes *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **shēntǐ** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **jiànkāng** *in a quote* | gerund | | good health | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wànshì** *in a quote* | past | | rúyì | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | may | everything | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **wish** | present | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **xuéyè** *in a quote* | past | | jìnbù | | | | | tree rules | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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