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title: "Zhōngqiū jié" is the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival, in September or O… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "Zhōngqiū jié" is the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival, in September or October at the full moon; it is a family reunion night second only to New Year. Who acts: drummer. A sentence of the lesson «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 11

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"Zhōngqiū jié" is the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival, in September or October at the full moon; it is a family reunion night second only to New Year.

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**Who acts:** drummer · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** jié Mid-Autumn, full moon, reunion night

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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 (drummer), 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:11
# text = "Zhōngqiū jié" is the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival, in September or October at the full moon; it is a family reunion night second only to New Year.
# 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 ×3
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Zhōngqiū	Zhōngqiū	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	jié	jié	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Mid-Autumn	Mid-Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound
10	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	reunion	reunion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
27	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod
32	.	.	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 |  | the jié Mid-Autumn and Moon or Festival |  | the full moon | september |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | drummer | a reunion night |  |  |  | second *property* | tree rules |

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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:11`.

**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 ×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.

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

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