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title: The wise way is to check: sometimes Danylo is right, sometimes he st… — Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus · tree and pragmatics
description: The wise way is to check: sometimes Danylo is right, sometimes he stretches it, sometimes the teacher has to update his notes. Who acts: wise way, Danylo, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus, sentence 2

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The wise way is to check: sometimes Danylo is right, sometimes he stretches it, sometimes the teacher has to update his notes.

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**Who acts:** wise way, Danylo, teacher · **What happens:** be, stretch, have, update, note · **To what, where:** way, notes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» of the history 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 (wise way, Danylo, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:041-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus.lesson:2
# text = The wise way is to check: sometimes Danylo is right, sometimes he stretches it, sometimes the teacher has to update his notes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 041-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
9	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	update	update	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the wise way |  |  |  |  | check *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Danylo |  |  |  |  | right, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stretch** | present | Danylo | way |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present | the teacher |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **update** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the teacher *not said here* | teacher's notes |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent note=Recipient |
| 6 | **note** |  | teacher |  |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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:041-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus.lesson:2`.

**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): no change. **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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