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title: A "fave" is a favourite, "end of" in British slang means no more arg… — Charts, number ones and famous musicians as publ… · tree and pragmatics
description: A "fave" is a favourite, "end of" in British slang means no more argument, and "Shchedryk" is a Ukrainian New Year song whose tune the world now knows as "Carol of the Bells". Who acts: fave, end, Shchedryk, world. A sentence of the lesson «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» 
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# Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record, sentence 4

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A "fave" is a favourite, "end of" in British slang means no more argument, and "Shchedryk" is a Ukrainian New Year song whose tune the world now knows as "Carol of the Bells".

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**Who acts:** fave, end, Shchedryk, world · **What happens:** be, mean, know · **To what, where:** favourite, more argument, Ukrainian Year song, tune

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» of the arts 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 (fave, end, Shchedryk, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.lesson:4
# text = A "fave" is a favourite, "end of" in British slang means no more argument, and "Shchedryk" is a Ukrainian New Year song whose tune the world now knows as "Carol of the Bells".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fave	fave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	favourite	favourite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Shchedryk	Shchedryk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
28	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
31	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
36	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Carol	Carol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Bells	bell	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a fave | a favourite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | end in British slang | no more argument |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Shchedryk | a Ukrainian Year song |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present | the world | tune |  |  | now | as Carol of the Bells | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tune=Stimulus as carol=Attribute |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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