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title: "shǎng yuè" means looking at the full moon together; the story says… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "shǎng yuè" means looking at the full moon together; the story says the lady Cháng'é lives on the moon with a jade rabbit. Who acts: shǎng yuè, story, lady. A sentence of the lesson «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 13

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"shǎng yuè" means looking at the full moon together; the story says the lady Cháng'é lives on the moon with a jade rabbit.

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**Who acts:** shǎng yuè, story, lady · **What happens:** mean, look, say, live · **To what, where:** moon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (shǎng yuè, story, lady), 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:13
# text = "shǎng yuè" means looking at the full moon together; the story says the lady Cháng'é lives on the moon with a jade rabbit.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
2	shǎng	shǎng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	yuè	yuè	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	Cháng'é	Cháng'é	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | shǎng yuè |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** *not said to happen* | gerund | shǎng yuè *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the full moon; together *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the story |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **live** | present | the lady |  |  | the moon |  | with a jade rabbit | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with rabbit=Location |

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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:13`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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