--- title: Birthdays have their own food: chángshòumiàn, long-life noodles — do… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: Birthdays have their own food: chángshòumiàn, long-life noodles — don't bite them short, slurp them whole, because long noodles mean long life. Who acts: Birthdays, long noodles. A sentence of the lesson «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 3 Birthdays have their own food: chángshòumiàn, long-life noodles — don't bite them short, slurp them whole, because long noodles mean long life. **Who acts:** Birthdays, long noodles · **What happens:** have, not bite, slurp, mean · **To what, where:** own food, food, long life 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 (Birthdays, long noodles), 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:3 # text = Birthdays have their own food: chángshòumiàn, long-life noodles — don't bite them short, slurp them whole, because long noodles mean long life. # 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 ×1 1 Birthdays birthday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 chángshòumiàn chángshòumiàn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 noodles noodle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 13 — - PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 14 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 bite bite VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 slurp slurp VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 noodles noodle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Birthdays | Birthdays's own food and life noodles | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 2 | **not** **bite** | infinitive · do-support | | food | | | | short *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **slurp** | infinitive | | food | | | | whole *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | long noodles | long life | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:3`. **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 ×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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