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title: "Дякую" (DYAH-koo-yu) means thank you, "будь ласка" means please or… — Ukrainian compared with English · tree and pragmatics
description: "Дякую" (DYAH-koo-yu) means thank you, "будь ласка" means please or you're welcome, and "привіт" means hi. Who acts: будь ласка, you, привіт. A sentence of the lesson «Ukrainian compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Ukrainian compared with English, sentence 14

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"Дякую" (DYAH-koo-yu) means thank you, "будь ласка" means please or you're welcome, and "привіт" means hi.

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**Who acts:** будь ласка, you, привіт · **What happens:** mean, thank, be · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (будь ласка, you, привіт), 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:14
# text = "Дякую" (DYAH-koo-yu) means thank you, "будь ласка" means please or you're welcome, and "привіт" means hi.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Дякую	Дякую	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	DYAH	DYAH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	koo	koo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	yu	yu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	будь	будь	X	FW	_	17	flat:foreign	_	_
17	ласка	ласка	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:discourse
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	привіт	привіт	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
31	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | Дякую *vocative* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | будь ласка |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | welcome *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | present | привіт |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:14`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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