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title: Ukrainian grannies play a polite game: they offer shche trOshky — a… — Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "c… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Ukrainian grannies, grannies, you. A sentence of the lesson «Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come 
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# Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!", sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** Ukrainian grannies, grannies, you · **What happens:** play, offer, answer, nayivsya · **To what, where:** polite game, shche trOshky, ni

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!"» 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 (Ukrainian grannies, grannies, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:013-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 013-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grannies	granny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	shche	shche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	trOshky	troshky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	28	conj	_	_
31	ni	no	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	DYAkuyu	DYAkuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	ya	ya	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs
36	nayIvsya	nayivsya	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **play** | present | Ukrainian grannies | a polite game |  |  | time |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | present | grannies *= granny* | shche trOshky |  |  | again |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent troshky=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | you | ni |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent no=Eventuality |
| 4 | **nayivsya** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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