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title: In early summer comes Duānwǔ jié, the Dragon Boat Festival, with rac… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: In early summer comes Duānwǔ jié, the Dragon Boat Festival, with races to a drumbeat and sticky rice parcels, zòngzi; it remembers a poet who drowned, so some families wish "Duānwǔ ānkāng" (a peaceful Duanwu) instead of "happy". Who acts: Duānwǔ, zòngzi, poet, families. A sentence of the lesson «Lan
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# Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 1

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In early summer comes Duānwǔ jié, the Dragon Boat Festival, with races to a drumbeat and sticky rice parcels, zòngzi; it remembers a poet who drowned, so some families wish "Duānwǔ ānkāng" (a peaceful Duanwu) instead of "happy".

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**Who acts:** Duānwǔ, zòngzi, poet, families · **What happens:** come, remember, drown, wish · **To what, where:** poet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» 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 (Duānwǔ, zòngzi, poet, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:027-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays.lesson:1
# text = In early summer comes Duānwǔ jié, the Dragon Boat Festival, with races to a drumbeat and sticky rice parcels, zòngzi; it remembers a poet who drowned, so some families wish "Duānwǔ ānkāng" (a peaceful Duanwu) instead of "happy".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 027-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Duānwǔ	Duānwǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
6	jié	jié	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Boat	Boat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	drumbeat	drumbeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	parcels	parcel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	zòngzi	zòngzi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
37	Duānwǔ	Duānwǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	ānkāng	ānkāng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	parataxis	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Duanwu	Duanwu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	parataxis	_	_
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
45	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	_
48	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:parataxis
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | present | Duānwǔ and the Boat Festival and races to a drumbeat and sticky rice parcels and zòngzi |  |  |  | summer |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remember** | present | zòngzi | a poet |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent poet=Theme |
| 3 | **drown** | past | a poet |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wish** | present | some families |  |  |  |  | of happy | vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=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:027-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays.lesson:1`.

**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.

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