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title: The best thing a guest can say about the food is SMAchno, tasty; the… — Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal" · tree and pragmatics
description: The best thing a guest can say about the food is SMAchno, tasty; the cook will smile and probably give you more. Who acts: guest, best thing, cook. A sentence of the lesson «Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal", sentence 1

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The best thing a guest can say about the food is SMAchno, tasty; the cook will smile and probably give you more.

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**Who acts:** guest, best thing, cook · **What happens:** say, be, smile, give · **To what, where:** best thing, SMAchno, more, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"» 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 (guest, best thing, cook), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:012-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal.lesson:1
# text = The best thing a guest can say about the food is SMAchno, tasty; the cook will smile and probably give you more.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 012-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	SMAchno	SMAchno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	tasty	tasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	smile	smile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obj|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | a guest | the best thing *not said here* |  |  |  | about the food | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the best thing | SMAchno |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the best thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **smile** | future | the cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | the cook *not said here* | more | you |  |  | probably *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=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:012-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal.lesson:1`.

**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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