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title: "Duānwǔ jié" is the Dragon Boat Festival, in early summer on the 5th… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "Duānwǔ jié" is the Dragon Boat Festival, in early summer on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month; it remembers a poet who drowned, and some families wish "Duānwǔ ānkāng". Who acts: dēnglong, poet, families. A sentence of the lesson «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» of the chinese stre
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# Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays, sentence 8

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"Duānwǔ jié" is the Dragon Boat Festival, in early summer on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month; it remembers a poet who drowned, and some families wish "Duānwǔ ānkāng".

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**Who acts:** dēnglong, poet, families · **What happens:** be, remember, drown, wish · **To what, where:** jié Boat Festival, poet, Duānwǔ ānkāng

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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, poet, 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:8
# text = "Duānwǔ jié" is the Dragon Boat Festival, in early summer on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month; it remembers a poet who drowned, and some families wish "Duānwǔ ānkāng".
# 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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Duānwǔ	Duānwǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	jié	jié	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Boat	Boat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	5th	5th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	5th	5th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
21	lunar	lunar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
36	Duānwǔ	Duānwǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	ānkāng	ānkāng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the jié Boat Festival |  |  | summer |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | present | dēnglong | a poet |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent poet=Theme |
| 3 | **drown** | past | a poet |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wish** | present | some families | Duānwǔ ānkāng |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ānkāng=Theme |

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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.

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**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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