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title: Then maybe vareNYky, little dumplings you can help pinch shut, fille… — The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: Then maybe vareNYky, little dumplings you can help pinch shut, filled with potato, cheese, cabbage — or, surprise, sweet cherries. Who acts: you, little dumplings. 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 wi
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# The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house, sentence 2

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Then maybe vareNYky, little dumplings you can help pinch shut, filled with potato, cheese, cabbage — or, surprise, sweet cherries.

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**Who acts:** you, little dumplings · **What happens:** help, pinch, fill · **To what, where:** little dumplings

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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 (you, little dumplings), 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:2
# text = Then maybe vareNYky, little dumplings you can help pinch shut, filled with potato, cheese, cabbage — or, surprise, sweet cherries.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	vareNYky	varenyky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	pinch	pinch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **help** | can | you | little dumplings or surprise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent dumpling=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **pinch** | infinitive | little dumplings or surprise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | shut *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | little dumplings or surprise *not said here* |  |  |  | with potato and cheese and cabbage and sweet cherries | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with potato=Instrument |

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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): R5-strong ×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/).

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