--- title: Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet with 33 letters; some look like… — Ukrainian compared with English · tree and pragmatics description: Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet with 33 letters; some look like English letters but sound different: "В" sounds like v, "Н" like n, "Р" like r. Who acts: Ukrainian, some, В. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ukrainian, some, В), 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:5 # text = Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet with 33 letters; some look like English letters but sound different: "В" sounds like v, "Н" like n, "Р" like r. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Cyrillic cyrillic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 alphabet alphabet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 33 33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 11 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 В В PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 v v NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Н Н PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 n n PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 Р р NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 r. R. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Ukrainian | the Cyrillic alphabet | | | | with 33 letters | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alphabet=Patient | | 2 | **look** | present | some | | | | | like English letters | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **sound** | present | some *not said here* | | | | | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **sound** | present | В | | | | | like v | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:5`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Ukrainian compared with English, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/4/) - next →: [Ukrainian compared with English, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/)