--- title: Ukraine is the largest country lying wholly in Europe, Russia being… — Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations · tree and pragmatics description: 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». 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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 (Ukraine, largest country, you, « Carol), 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:1 # text = 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». # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 6 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 wholly wholly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 cop _ _ 13 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 parataxis _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 Kyiv Kyiv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 engineer engineer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Igor Igor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 Sikorsky Sikorsky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 31 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 helicopter helicopter NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 practical practical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 37 « « PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Carol Carol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Bells bell PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 42 » » PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 sung sing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:acl:relcl 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 48 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 49 det _ _ 49 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:appos 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 Ukrainian ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 55 « « PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=56:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 56 Shchedryk Shchedryk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 appos _ _ 57 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 flat _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Ukraine | the largest country and a born engineer | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | the largest country and a born engineer *not said here* | | | Europe and Russia | | wholly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in europe=Location | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **count** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | fish's Asian land | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 5 | **bear** | participle | | Kyiv | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **make** | past | | the helicopter | | | | practical *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset helicopter=Product | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle | « Carol of the Bells *not said here* | every Christmas | | American films | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location | | 8 | **is a** | present | « Carol of the Bells | the Ukrainian song | | | | | tree rules | 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:050-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations.lesson:1`. **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. 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