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title: chai means tea, offered to guests always; it is usually black tea wi… — Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal" · tree and pragmatics
description: chai means tea, offered to guests always; it is usually black tea with sugar or lemon, not spiced chai. Who acts: chai. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal", sentence 4

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chai means tea, offered to guests always; it is usually black tea with sugar or lemon, not spiced chai.

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**Who acts:** chai · **What happens:** mean, offer, be, not spice · **To what, where:** tea, guests, black tea

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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 (chai), 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:4
# text = chai means tea, offered to guests always; it is usually black tea with sugar or lemon, not spiced chai.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	chai	chai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lemon	lemon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	spiced	spice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	chai	chai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | chai | tea |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Topic |
| 2 | **offer** | participle |  | tea *not said here* | guests |  |  | always *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to guest=Goal |
| 3 | **is a** | present | chai | black tea |  |  |  | with sugar or lemon and spiced chai; usually *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **spice** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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:4`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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