--- title: "Qīngmíng jié" is Tomb-Sweeping Day in early April, a quiet, respect… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: "Qīngmíng jié" is Tomb-Sweeping Day in early April, a quiet, respectful day of visiting family graves; you don't say "happy Qingming". Who acts: Qīngmíng jié, quiet respectful day, you. 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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 (Qīngmíng jié, quiet respectful day, you), 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:16 # text = "Qīngmíng jié" is Tomb-Sweeping Day in early April, a quiet, respectful day of visiting family graves; you don't say "happy Qingming". # 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 ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Qīngmíng Qīngmíng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 jié jié NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 Tomb tomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Sweeping Sweeping PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 9 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 respectful respectful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 19 of of SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 visiting visit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 graves grave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Qingming Qingming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Qīngmíng jié | Tomb Sweeping Day | | | april | | tree rules | | 2 | **visit** | gerund | a quiet respectful day *not said here* | family graves | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Co-Agent | | 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you | happy Qingming | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent qingming=Topic | 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:16`. **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 ×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. 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