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title: Many food words are traps for English ears: kompOt is a drink, not a… — The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Many food words, kompOt, holubtsI. A sentence of the lesson «The flag, and what's cooking at the frie
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# The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** Many food words, kompOt, holubtsI · **What happens:** be, make, mean, have · **To what, where:** traps, drink, syrnYky, little doves, birds

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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 (Many food words, kompOt, holubtsI), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	kompOt	kompot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dessert	dessert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	syrnYky	syrnyky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
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	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	cheddar	cheddar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	holubtsI	holubtsI	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	nsubj	_	_
31	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
39	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Many food words | traps |  |  |  | for English ears | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | kompOt | a drink and a dessert |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | syrnYky |  |  |  | with soft cottage cheese and cheddar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **mean** | present | holubtsI | little doves |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | present | holubtsI *not said here* | no birds |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |

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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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**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:ukrainian-street:011-the-flag-and-whats-cooking.lesson:3`.

**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, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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