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title: "hóngbāo" is a red envelope with money in it, given by elders to chi… — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics
description: "hóngbāo" is a red envelope with money in it, given by elders to children at New Year, birthdays and weddings. Who acts: hóngbāo. 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 cl
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# Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 5

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"hóngbāo" is a red envelope with money in it, given by elders to children at New Year, birthdays and weddings.

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**Who acts:** hóngbāo · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** red envelope, children

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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 (hóngbāo), 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:5
# text = "hóngbāo" is a red envelope with money in it, given by elders to children at New Year, birthdays and weddings.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	hóngbāo	hóngbāo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	envelope	envelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	20	flat	_	_
20	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	weddings	wedding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | hóngbāo | a red envelope |  |  |  | with money in money | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | a red envelope *not said here* | children |  | at New Year and birthdays and weddings | by elders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient at year=Asset |

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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:5`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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