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title: "Borscht", the beetroot soup closely linked to Ukraine, reached Engl… — Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chi… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Borscht", the beetroot soup closely linked to Ukraine, reached English through Yiddish from the Slavic word "борщ"; in 2022 UNESCO listed Ukrainian borscht cooking as heritage needing urgent protection. Who acts: Borscht, UNESCO, heritage. A sentence of the lesson «Borrowed words from far away: Hin
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# Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and more, sentence 13

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"Borscht", the beetroot soup closely linked to Ukraine, reached English through Yiddish from the Slavic word "борщ"; in 2022 UNESCO listed Ukrainian borscht cooking as heritage needing urgent protection.

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**Who acts:** Borscht, UNESCO, heritage · **What happens:** link, reach, list, need · **To what, where:** beetroot soup, Ukraine, English, Yiddish, Ukrainian borscht cooking, 2022

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and more» of the language 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 (Borscht, UNESCO, heritage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:024-borrowed-words-from-far-away.lesson:13
# text = "Borscht", the beetroot soup closely linked to Ukraine, reached English through Yiddish from the Slavic word "борщ"; in 2022 UNESCO listed Ukrainian borscht cooking as heritage needing urgent protection.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 024-borrowed-words-from-far-away.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Borscht	borscht	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	beetroot	beetroot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Yiddish	Yiddish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Slavic	slavic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	борщ	борщ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
27	UNESCO	UNESCO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	listed	list	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
29	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	borscht	borscht	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	needing	need	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **link** | participle |  | the beetroot soup *not said here* | Ukraine |  |  | closely *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to ukraine=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | past | Borscht | English |  | Yiddish |  | from the Slavic word | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent english=Theme from word=Source |
| 3 | **list** | past | UNESCO | Ukrainian borscht cooking |  | 2022 |  | as heritage | tree rules |
| 4 | **need** | gerund | heritage *not said here* | urgent protection |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot protection=Theme |

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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:language:024-borrowed-words-from-far-away.lesson:13`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

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

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