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description: Ukrainian nouns have grammatical gender, a grammar label, not boy or girl: "стіл" (table) is masculine, "книга" (book) feminine, "вікно" (window) neuter. Who acts: Ukrainian nouns, стіл. A sentence of the lesson «Ukrainian compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Ukrainian compared with English, sentence 13

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Ukrainian nouns have grammatical gender, a grammar label, not boy or girl: "стіл" (table) is masculine, "книга" (book) feminine, "вікно" (window) neuter.

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**Who acts:** Ukrainian nouns, стіл · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** grammatical gender

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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 nouns, стіл), 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:13
# text = Ukrainian nouns have grammatical gender, a grammar label, not boy or girl: "стіл" (table) is masculine, "книга" (book) feminine, "вікно" (window) neuter.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	grammatical	grammatical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	стіл	стіл	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
26	книга	книга	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
29	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
34	вікно	вікно	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
37	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
39	neuter	neuter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 nouns | grammatical gender and a grammar label and boy or girl |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | стіл |  |  |  |  | masculine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | стіл *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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