--- title: In Chinese tradition the dragon, «long», brings rain and good fortun… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics description: In Chinese tradition the dragon, «long», brings rain and good fortune and is a symbol of power, while European dragons are often villains; Chinese legends have some dangerous dragons too. Who acts: European dragons, Chinese legends. 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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 (European dragons, Chinese legends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:20 # text = In Chinese tradition the dragon, «long», brings rain and good fortune and is a symbol of power, while European dragons are often villains; Chinese legends have some dangerous dragons too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 8 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 symbol symbol NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 often often ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 villains villain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 det _ _ 34 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | present | | rain and good fortune | | Chinese tradition | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a symbol | | | | of power | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | European dragons | villains | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | Chinese legends | some dangerous dragons | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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:history:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:20`. **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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-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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