--- title: One day in early April is not a party at all: Qīngmíng jié, Tomb-Swe… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: One day in early April is not a party at all: Qīngmíng jié, Tomb-Sweeping Day, when families quietly visit and clean the graves of their grandparents and ancestors. Who acts: One day, 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 (One day, 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:4 # text = One day in early April is not a party at all: Qīngmíng jié, Tomb-Sweeping Day, when families quietly visit and clean the graves of their grandparents and ancestors. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Qīngmíng Qīngmíng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 jié jié NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 Tomb tomb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 Sweeping Sweeping PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl:relcl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 clean clean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 graves grave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:conj 34 . . 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 | **not** **is a** | present | One day in early April | a party | | all | | | tree rules | | 2 | **visit** | infinitive | families | | | | | quietly *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **clean** | present | families *not said here* | the graves of families's grandparents and ancestors | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grave=Patient | 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:4`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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