--- title: «Чекаю цілу вічність» (Chekayu tsilu vichnist) is Ukrainian for «I'v… — Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex… · tree and pragmatics description: «Чекаю цілу вічність» (Chekayu tsilu vichnist) is Ukrainian for «I've been waiting a whole eternity», the same as English «forever». Who acts: «, Ukrainian grandma. 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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 grandma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:12 # text = «Чекаю цілу вічність» (Chekayu tsilu vichnist) is Ukrainian for «I've been waiting a whole eternity», the same as English «forever». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 « « PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 2 Чекаю Чекаю PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 цілу цілу X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 вічність вічність X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Chekayu Chekayu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 tsilu tsilu X FW Foreign=Yes 7 dep _ _ 9 vichnist vichnist NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 « « PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 aux _ _ 18 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 eternity eternity NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 « « PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 forever forever ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## 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 | **is a** | present | « | vichnist Ukrainian | | | | for « | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | a Ukrainian grandma *= grandma* | a whole eternity | | | | forever *property* | tree rules | 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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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