--- title: "dēnglong" means lantern; "cāi dēngmí", guessing riddles written on… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: "dēnglong" means lantern; "cāi dēngmí", guessing riddles written on lanterns, is a Lantern Festival game. Who acts: dēnglong, guessing. 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 pr --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 7 "dēnglong" means lantern; "cāi dēngmí", guessing riddles written on lanterns, is a Lantern Festival game. **Who acts:** dēnglong, guessing · **What happens:** mean, guess, write, be · **To what, where:** lantern, riddles, lanterns, Festival game · **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 (dēnglong, guessing), 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:7 # text = "dēnglong" means lantern; "cāi dēngmí", guessing riddles written on lanterns, is a Lantern Festival game. # 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 `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 dēnglong dēnglong NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 lantern lantern NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 cāi cāi X FW _ 9 compound _ _ 9 dēngmí dēngmí NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 guessing guess VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 13 riddles riddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 lanterns lantern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 Lantern Lantern PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Festival Festival PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | dēnglong | lantern | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **guess** | gerund | | riddles | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme | | 3 | **write** | participle | | riddles *not said here* | | lanterns | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on lantern=Destination | | 4 | **is a** | present | guessing | a Festival game | | | | | tree rules | 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:7`. **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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