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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 (sài, drummer, races), 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:10 # text = "sài lóngzhōu" means dragon boat racing; the drummer at the front sets the beat, and there are races in British cities too. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 sài sài X FW Foreign=Yes 5 nsubj _ _ 3 lóngzhōu lóngzhōu X FW Foreign=Yes 2 flat _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 7 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 racing racing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 drummer drummer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 races race NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | sài | boat racing | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent racing=Topic | | 2 | **set** | present | the drummer at the front | the beat | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient beat=Result | | 3 | **does** | present | races in British cities | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:027-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays.lesson:10`. **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. **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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