--- title: "shēngrì kuàilè" means happy birthday; "zhù nǐ shēngrì kuàilè" is su… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: "shēngrì kuàilè" means happy birthday; "zhù nǐ shēngrì kuàilè" is sung to the same tune as the English song. Who acts: kuàilè. A sentence of the lesson «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays/) / 14 # Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 14 "shēngrì kuàilè" means happy birthday; "zhù nǐ shēngrì kuàilè" is sung to the same tune as the English song. **Who acts:** kuàilè · **What happens:** mean, shēngrì, sing · **To what, where:** happy birthday, same tune · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (kuàilè), 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:14 # text = "shēngrì kuàilè" means happy birthday; "zhù nǐ shēngrì kuàilè" is sung to the same tune as the English song. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 shēngrì shēngrì ADV FW _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 kuàilè kuàilè PROPN NNP 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 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 10 zhù zhù VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 nǐ nǐ PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 advmod _ _ 12 shēngrì shēngrì VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 kuàilè kuàilè NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 sung sing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 ccomp _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | kuàilè | happy birthday | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Topic | | 2 | **shēngrì** *in a quote* | infinitive | kuàilè *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · passive | | | the same tune as the English song | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: to tune=Recipient | 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:14`. **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): 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. 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