--- title: "zòngzi" are sticky rice parcels wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied w… — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: "zòngzi" are sticky rice parcels wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied with string; you don't eat the leaves, and sweet versus salty filling starts north–south family arguments. Who acts: zòngzi, you, sweet salty filling. 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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 (zòngzi, you, sweet salty filling), 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:9 # text = "zòngzi" are sticky rice parcels wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied with string; you don't eat the leaves, and sweet versus salty filling starts north–south family arguments. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 zòngzi zòngzi NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 parcels parcel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 versus versus ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 filling filling NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 north north ADJ JJ _ 32 amod _ _ 31 – - PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 south south ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 arguments argument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | zòngzi | sticky rice parcels | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wrap** | participle | | sticky rice parcels *not said here* | | bamboo leaves | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in leaf=Destination | | 3 | **tie** | participle | | | | | | with string | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with string=Co-Patient | | 4 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | you | the leaves | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 5 | **start** | present | sweet salty filling | south family arguments | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Eventuality | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-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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