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title: Ukrainian has two words for "you": "ти" for friends and family, and… — Ukrainian compared with English · tree and pragmatics
description: Ukrainian has two words for "you": "ти" for friends and family, and "ви" for teachers, strangers or several people; old English had "thou" and "you" in a similar way. Who acts: Ukrainian, old English. A sentence of the lesson «Ukrainian compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary
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# Ukrainian compared with English, sentence 11

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Ukrainian has two words for "you": "ти" for friends and family, and "ви" for teachers, strangers or several people; old English had "thou" and "you" in a similar way.

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**Who acts:** Ukrainian, old English · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** two words, thou, similar way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukrainian compared with English» 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 (Ukrainian, old English), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:033-ukrainian-compared-with-english.lesson:11
# text = Ukrainian has two words for "you": "ти" for friends and family, and "ви" for teachers, strangers or several people; old English had "thou" and "you" in a similar way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 033-ukrainian-compared-with-english.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ти	ти	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ви	ви	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	conj	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Ukrainian | two words |  |  |  | for you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | old English | thou |  | a similar way |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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**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:033-ukrainian-compared-with-english.lesson:11`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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