--- title: The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In Sashko's family the zhovto-blakYtnyi flag, yellow and blue, is a serious symbol of pride, so it is not some --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/) [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/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/) / The flag, and what's cooking at the fr… # The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house Lesson 11 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/0/) — In Sashko's family the zhovto-blakYtnyi flag, yellow and blue, is a serious symbol of pride, so it is not something to make jokes about. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/1/) — Lunch at Granny's often starts with borshch, a red beetroot soup with a spoon of smetAna, sour cream — the family's pride. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/2/) — Then maybe vareNYky, little dumplings you can help pinch shut, filled with potato, cheese, cabbage — or, surprise, sweet cherries. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/3/) — Many food words are traps for English ears: kompOt is a drink, not a dessert; syrnYky are made with soft cottage cheese, not cheddar; holubtsI means «little doves» but has no birds inside. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/4/) — zhovto-blakYtnyi means yellow-and-blue, said with pride about the Ukrainian flag, a serious symbol in the family. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/5/) — borshch is a red beetroot soup served with sour cream; in 2022 UNESCO listed the culture of Ukrainian borshch cooking as heritage in need of urgent protection, though similar soups are eaten in neighbouring countries too. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/6/) — vareNYky are dumplings filled with potato, cheese, cabbage or cherries, often made together at the table; cherry vareNYky are sweet. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/7/) — pelmeni are a different dumpling, with meat, and are not the same as vareNYky. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/8/) — holubtsI are cabbage rolls with rice and meat; the name means «little doves», but there are no birds inside. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/9/) — smetAna is sour cream, put on borshch, vareNYky and pancakes; it is sour, not sweet like whipped cream. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/10/) — sAlo is cured pork fat sliced on bread; grandads love it, people joke about it as a Ukrainian food, and a guest can politely say ni, DYAkuyu. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/11/) — mlyntsI are thin pancakes eaten with jam or cottage cheese; rolled with a filling they may be called nalysnyky. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/12/) — syrnYky are fritters of soft cottage cheese, eaten with smetAna or jam; syr means cheese, but here it is soft cottage cheese. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/13/) — khlib means bread, often dark rye; it is respected, and grannies frown on dropping or throwing it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/14/) — kartOplya means potato, and kOvbasa is a salami-like sausage, while a hot-dog sausage is a sosyska. - ← previous: [The colours, and two kinds of blue](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/) - next →: [Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal/) - ↑ back to [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/)