--- title: Ukrainian is the state language, yet many families spoke Russian at… — Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Ukrainian, many families, parents, teacher. 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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 (Ukrainian, many families, parents, teacher), 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:3 # text = 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. # 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 1 Ukrainian Ukrainian 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 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 Russian Russian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 historical historical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 Danylo Danylo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 switched switch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 31 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Ukrainian | the state language | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | many families | Russian | | home | | for historical reasons | tree rules | | 3 | **switch** | past | Danylo's parents | | Ukrainian | 2022 | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to ukrainian=Result | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | language choice | | | | | personal *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **change** | gerund | language choice *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerat…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/2/) - next →: [Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerat…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/)