--- title: Ukrainian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet of 33 letters, some of… — Ukrainian compared with English · tree and pragmatics description: Ukrainian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet of 33 letters, some of which look like English letters but stand for other sounds, and some of which belong to Ukrainian alone. Who acts: some. A sentence of the lesson «Ukrainian compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Ukrainian compared with English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/) / 3 # Ukrainian compared with English, sentence 3 Ukrainian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet of 33 letters, some of which look like English letters but stand for other sounds, and some of which belong to Ukrainian alone. **Who acts:** some · **What happens:** write, look, stand, belong · **To what, where:** Ukrainian, Cyrillic alphabet 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 (some), 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:3 # text = Ukrainian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet of 33 letters, some of which look like English letters but stand for other sounds, and some of which belong to Ukrainian alone. # 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 1 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Cyrillic cyrillic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 alphabet alphabet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 33 33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nmod _ _ 15 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nmod _ _ 29 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 alone alone ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | present · passive | | Ukrainian | | the Cyrillic alphabet of 33 letters | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in alphabet=Destination | | 2 | **look** | present | some | | | | | like English letters | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **stand** | present | some *not said here* | | | | | for other sounds | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for sound=Attribute | | 4 | **belong** | present | some | | Ukrainian | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:3`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Ukrainian compared with English, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/1/) - next →: [Ukrainian compared with English, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/)