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title: Pysanky are eggs decorated by drawing with wax and dipping in dyes,… — Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Pysanky, wax, Kolomyia, decorated eggs. A sentence of the l
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# Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations, sentence 12

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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.

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**Who acts:** Pysanky, wax, Kolomyia, decorated eggs · **What happens:** be, decorate, draw, dip, keep, cover · **To what, where:** eggs, old tradition, dye, lines, pysanka museum, many cultures

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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 (Pysanky, wax, Kolomyia, decorated eggs), 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:12
# text = 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.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pysanky	Pysanky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dyes	dye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Kolomyia	Kolomyia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	pysanka	pysanka	X	FW	_	33	compound	_	_
33	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 a** | present | Pysanky | eggs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **decorate** | participle |  | eggs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with wax | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dip** | gerund |  | a old tradition |  |  |  | in dyes | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in dye=Attribute |
| 5 | **keep** | present | the wax | the dye |  |  |  | off the lines | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dye=Theme |
| 6 | **cover** | present | wax | the lines *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Destination |
| 7 | **have** | present | Kolomyia | a pysanka museum |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent museum=Patient |
| 8 | **shape** | participle |  | a pysanka museum *not said here* |  |  |  | like a giant egg | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 9 | **decorate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **exist** | present | decorated eggs |  |  | many cultures |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in culture=Location |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

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