--- title: Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!" — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!"», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Ukrainian grannies play a polite game: they offer shche trOshky — a little more — again and again, often --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/) / Granny's "a little more", festival foo… # Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!" Lesson 13 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/0/) — Ukrainian grannies play a polite game: they offer shche trOshky — a little more — again and again, often three times, and you answer kindly and firmly ni, DYAkuyu, ya nayIvsya. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/1/) — The magic key for asking is mozhna …? — may I …? — and with BUD laska added it is perfect: mozhna vodu, BUD laska? - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/2/) — Festival food has its own words: kutYa, sweet wheat with poppy seeds, honey and nuts, on Christmas Eve; paska, the tall iced Easter bread; and Granny's pyRIzhky, little filled buns, any day. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/3/) — Then you run outside, and the playground words start: daVAI! (come on!), hayDA! (off we go!), lovY! (catch!), kydAi! (throw it!), and tvIy khid — your move. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/4/) — shche trOshky means a little more, Granny offering more food; trOshky means a little bit. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/5/) — mozhna ...? means may I have ...? or can I ...?, the polite way to ask for anything, and the answer mozhna means yes, you may. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/6/) — pyRIzhky are little baked or fried buns with a filling, from Granny's baking or a picnic basket; pirozhki is the Russian word. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/7/) — kutYa is sweet wheat with poppy seeds, honey and nuts, eaten at the Christmas Eve dinner; tasting the first spoon is part of the evening. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/8/) — paska is a tall Easter bread with white icing; the festival itself is called Velykden. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/9/) — daVAI! means come on!, let's go! or go on!, the all-purpose word for urging a friend; in casual Russian-speaking talk it can also mean bye. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/10/) — hayDA! means let's go! or off we go!, with a cheerful old Ukrainian feel. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/11/) — nu! means well? or come on!, hurrying a friend; said with a long sigh it means «oh, come on…», disappointed. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/12/) — lovY! means catch!, when throwing a ball; it is the same verb as catching fish, lovyty rybu, and has nothing to do with «love». - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/13/) — kydAi! means throw it!, asking for the ball. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/14/) — tvIy khid means your move, in board games and card games; the kh is said like the ch in Scottish «loch». - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/15/) — tvoya chErha means your turn in a queue, for example for the slide; chErha means queue or turn. - ← previous: [Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal/) - next →: [Your turn, I won, cheat! and tag](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/14-your-turn-i-won-cheat-and-tag/) - ↑ back to [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/)