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title: Danylo loves Ukraine so much that his stories grow in the telling, l… — Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Danylo, stories, fish, fisherman. A sentence of the lesson «Today's 
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# Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** Danylo, stories, fish, fisherman, lesson · **What happens:** love, grow, get, describe, check, be · **To what, where:** Ukraine, telling, fish, favourite claims

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» 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 (Danylo, stories, fish, fisherman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:050-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 050-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	telling	telling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	xcomp	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	42	advmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **love** | present | Danylo | Ukraine |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ukraine=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | present | Danylo's stories |  |  | the telling |  | like a fish | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in telling=Location |
| 3 | **get** | present | a fish |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **describe** | present | a fisherman | fish |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **check** | present | this lesson | Danylo's favourite claims  one by one |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | lesson |  |  |  |  | completely, right, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **claim** |  | Danylo |  |  |  |  |  | nom claim «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:050-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations.lesson:0`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

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

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