---
title: daVAI! means come on!, let's go! or go on!, the all-purpose word for… — Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "c… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: daVAI, 's, purpose word, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!"» of the ukrainian street course of
---

<!-- md -->
[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/9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/) / 9

# Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!", sentence 9

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
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.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** daVAI, 's, purpose word, friend · **What happens:** mean, come on, let, go, go on, urge · **To what, where:** 's, friend, bye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (daVAI, 's, purpose word, friend), 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:9
# text = 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.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	daVAI	daVAI	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	nsubj	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	urging	urge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	casual	casual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
29	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	also	also	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
37	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:discourse|HaikuPos=INTJ:UH:_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | daVAI |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come on** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go on** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **urge** | gerund | the purpose word *not said here* |  | a friend |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **mean** | can | friend | bye |  |  |  | in casual speaking talk | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot bye=Theme in talk=Attribute |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:013-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on.lesson:9`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Granny's "a little more", festival foo…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/8/)
- next →: [Granny's "a little more", festival foo…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/10/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/)

