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title: "hóngbāo ná lái" is a joke rhyme, "hand over the red envelope!", fun… — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics
description: "hóngbāo ná lái" is a joke rhyme, "hand over the red envelope!", funny with your own close family but greedy-sounding with a friend's family. Who acts: ná lái. 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 
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# Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 7

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"hóngbāo ná lái" is a joke rhyme, "hand over the red envelope!", funny with your own close family but greedy-sounding with a friend's family.

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**Who acts:** ná lái · **What happens:** be, hand, sound · **To what, where:** joke rhyme, red envelope

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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 (ná lái), 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:7
# text = "hóngbāo ná lái" is a joke rhyme, "hand over the red envelope!", funny with your own close family but greedy-sounding with a friend's family.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	hóngbāo	hóngbāo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
3	ná	ná	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	lái	lái	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
12	hand	hand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	envelope	envelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | ná lái | a joke rhyme |  | the red envelope |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hand** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sound** | gerund | ná lái *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a friend's family | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with family=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:7`.

**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 ×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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