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title: syrnYky are fritters of soft cottage cheese, eaten with smetAna or j… — The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: syrnYky are fritters of soft cottage cheese, eaten with smetAna or jam; syr means cheese, but here it is soft cottage cheese. Who acts: syrnYky, syr. A sentence of the lesson «The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house, sentence 12

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syrnYky are fritters of soft cottage cheese, eaten with smetAna or jam; syr means cheese, but here it is soft cottage cheese.

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**Who acts:** syrnYky, syr · **What happens:** be, eat, mean · **To what, where:** fritters, soft cottage cheese, cheese

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house» of the ukrainian street 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 (syrnYky, syr), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:011-the-flag-and-whats-cooking.lesson:12
# text = syrnYky are fritters of soft cottage cheese, eaten with smetAna or jam; syr means cheese, but here it is soft cottage cheese.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 011-the-flag-and-whats-cooking.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	syrnYky	syrnyky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fritters	fritter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	smetAna	smetana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Foreign=Yes
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	syr	syr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | syrnYky | fritters |  |  |  | of soft cottage cheese | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | participle |  | soft cottage cheese *not said here* |  |  |  | with smetAna or jam | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | syr | cheese |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | syr | soft cottage cheese |  | here |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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