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title: holubtsI are cabbage rolls with rice and meat; the name means «littl… — The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: holubtsI are cabbage rolls with rice and meat; the name means «little doves», but there are no birds inside. Who acts: name, birds. 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 dependency tree and the p
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# The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house, sentence 8

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holubtsI are cabbage rolls with rice and meat; the name means «little doves», but there are no birds inside.

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**Who acts:** name, birds · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** holubtsI cabbage rolls, little doves

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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 (name, birds), 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:8
# text = holubtsI are cabbage rolls with rice and meat; the name means «little doves», but there are 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): no change
1	holubtsI	holubtsI	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
23	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 |  | holubtsI cabbage rolls |  |  |  | with rice and meat | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the name | little doves |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Topic |
| 3 | **does** | present | no birds |  |  | there |  | inside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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