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title: Many people find Ukrainian melodious, but the story that it won a wo… — Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Many people, part, story. A sentence of the lesson «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» of the history course of Mova's primary sc
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# Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations, sentence 6

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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.

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**Who acts:** Many people, part, story · **What happens:** find, win, have · **To what, where:** Ukrainian, world contest, real source

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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 (Many people, part, story), 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:6
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
5	melodious	melodious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	melodious	melodious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Italian	Italian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
26	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **find** | present | Many people | Ukrainian |  |  |  | melodious *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ukrainian=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | past | part | a world contest |  |  |  | as the second melodious language after Italian | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | present | the story | no real source |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Patient |

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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): no change. **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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