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title: "Kiev" came from the Russian spelling; "Kyiv" follows Ukrainian, and… — Ukrainian compared with English · tree and pragmatics
description: "Kiev" came from the Russian spelling; "Kyiv" follows Ukrainian, and after the #KyivNotKiev campaign started in 2018, many governments, airports and newspapers switched to "Kyiv". Who acts: Kiev, Kyiv, # KyivNotKiev campaign, many governments. A sentence of the lesson «Ukrainian compared with Englis
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# Ukrainian compared with English, sentence 12

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"Kiev" came from the Russian spelling; "Kyiv" follows Ukrainian, and after the \#KyivNotKiev campaign started in 2018, many governments, airports and newspapers switched to "Kyiv".

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**Who acts:** Kiev, Kyiv, \# KyivNotKiev campaign, many governments · **What happens:** come, follow, start, switch · **To what, where:** Russian spelling, Ukrainian, 2018, Kyiv

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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 (Kiev, Kyiv, \# KyivNotKiev campaign, many governments), 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:12
# text = "Kiev" came from the Russian spelling; "Kyiv" follows Ukrainian, and after the #KyivNotKiev campaign started in 2018, many governments, airports and newspapers switched to "Kyiv".
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Kiev	Kiev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
14	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	#	#	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=SYM:#:Number=Sing
20	KyivNotKiev	KyivNotKiev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl
22	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	airports	airport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
32	switched	switch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | past | Kiev |  |  | the Russian spelling |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from spelling=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **follow** | present | Kyiv | Ukrainian |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ukrainian=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | past | the \# KyivNotKiev campaign |  |  | 2018 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **switch** | past | many governments and airports and newspapers |  | Kyiv |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to kyiv=Result |

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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:12`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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