--- title: Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Danylo loves Ukraine so much that his stories grow in the telling, like a fish that gets bigger each time a fisherman describes --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerat… # Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations Lesson 50 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/0/) — Danylo loves Ukraine so much that his stories grow in the telling, like a fish that gets bigger each time a fisherman describes it; this lesson checks his favourite claims one by one, and sometimes he is completely right. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/1/) — Ukraine is the largest country lying wholly in Europe, Russia being bigger only if you count its Asian land; a Kyiv-born engineer, Igor Sikorsky, made the helicopter practical; and «Carol of the Bells», sung in American films every Christmas, is the Ukrainian song «Shchedryk». - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/2/) — But there was no world contest that crowned Ukrainian «the most melodious language», the kerosene lamp was made in Lviv by a Polish pharmacist, decorated eggs exist in many cultures, and Ukraine has won Eurovision three times, not «always». - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/3/) — Ukrainian is the state language, yet many families spoke Russian at home for historical reasons; Danylo's parents switched to Ukrainian in 2022, and the teacher said language choice is personal and changing. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/4/) — The wise lesson: agree on definitions first, love your country without inventing prizes or firsts, and say thank you when a pupil teaches you something true. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/5/) — Ukraine, about 603,000 square kilometres, is the largest country entirely in Europe; Russia is larger, and even its European part alone is bigger than Ukraine. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/6/) — Many people find Ukrainian melodious, but the story that it won a world contest as the second most melodious language after Italian has no real source. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/7/) — Igor Sikorsky, born in Kyiv in 1889, built the first practical mass-produced helicopters, the VS-300 and R-4, in the USA; others in France and elsewhere built earlier rotorcraft. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/8/) — In 1853 Ignacy Łukasiewicz, a Polish pharmacist, and Jan Zeh made a kerosene lamp in Lviv, then in the Austrian Empire, and it lit a hospital operation. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/9/) — Serhii Korolev, chief designer of the Soviet space programme, was born in Zhytomyr; the Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro built many Soviet rockets; Yuri Kondratiuk from Poltava calculated the lunar orbit route later used by NASA's Apollo missions. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/11/) — The vyshyvanka is the embroidered shirt, with regional patterns and colours; Vyshyvanka Day is in May, and some motifs have traditional meanings, while many are decoration and local style. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/12/) — Pysanky are eggs decorated by drawing with wax and dipping in dyes, an old tradition; the wax keeps the dye off the lines it covers; Kolomyia has a pysanka museum shaped like a giant egg, and decorated eggs exist in many cultures. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/14/) — Ukrainian is the state language; for historical reasons many Ukrainians, especially in big cities and the east, spoke Russian at home, and since 2014, and more since 2022, many have switched to Ukrainian. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/15/) — Ukraine won Eurovision in 2004 (Ruslana), 2016 (Jamala with «1944») and 2022 (Kalush Orchestra). - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/16/) — Ukraine applied to join the EU in February 2022, became a candidate in June 2022, and accession talks (talks about joining) formally opened in June 2024; it is a candidate, not yet a member. - ← previous: [The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war/) - next →: [China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/51-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)