--- title: Neither way is better: English uses order and small words like "a",… — Ukrainian compared with English · tree and pragmatics description: Neither way is better: English uses order and small words like "a", "the", "to" and "with", Ukrainian uses endings, and both get the meaning across. Who acts: way, English, Ukrainian, both. 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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Ukrainian compared with English, sentence 4 Neither way is better: English uses order and small words like "a", "the", "to" and "with", Ukrainian uses endings, and both get the meaning across. **Who acts:** way, English, Ukrainian, both · **What happens:** be, use, get · **To what, where:** order, endings, meaning 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 (way, English, Ukrainian, both), 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:4 # text = Neither way is better: English uses order and small words like "a", "the", "to" and "with", Ukrainian uses endings, and both get the meaning across. # 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 ×6, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 parataxis _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 22 to to PART TO _ 7 xcomp _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 7 obl _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Ukrainian ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 30 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 31 endings ending NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 35 nsubj _ _ 35 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 across across ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | neither way | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | English | order and small words like a | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient | | 3 | **use** | present | Ukrainian | endings | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Patient | | 4 | **get** | present | both | the meaning | | | | across *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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 ×6, 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/). - ← previous: [Ukrainian compared with English, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/3/) - next →: [Ukrainian compared with English, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/)