--- title: In September or October comes Zhōngqiū jié, the Mid-Autumn or Moon F… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: In September or October comes Zhōngqiū jié, the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival: families cut a rich mooncake into small pieces and look at the full moon for the lady Cháng'é and her jade rabbit. Who acts: Zhōngqiū, families. 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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 (Zhōngqiū, families), 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:2 # text = In September or October comes Zhōngqiū jié, the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival: families cut a rich mooncake into small pieces and look at the full moon for the lady Cháng'é and her 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): R1-cc-next ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Zhōngqiū Zhōngqiū PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 7 jié jié PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 Mid-Autumn Mid-Autumn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 Festival Festival PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 mooncake mooncake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 24 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 32 Cháng'é Cháng'é PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=31:cc 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 jade jade NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 36 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **come** | present | Zhōngqiū | | | | september | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cut** | present | families | a rich mooncake | | small pieces | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent mooncake=Material into piece=Product | | 3 | **look** | infinitive | families *not said here* | | | the full moon | | for the lady and Festival's jade rabbit | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Location for lady=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:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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