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title: Football, wait, let's play and bagsy — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Football, wait, let's play and bagsy», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The best way into a group of kids anywhere is a ball, and the best Ukrainian sentence for it is mozhna z vAmy? — can I play 
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# Football, wait, let's play and bagsy

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Lesson 15 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/0/) — The best way into a group of kids anywhere is a ball, and the best Ukrainian sentence for it is mozhna z vAmy? — can I play with you? — usually answered with daVAI!
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/1/) — Then the pitch fills with shouts: daI pas! (pass it to me!), shvYdshe! (faster!), and hOL! — goal! — with a soft, breathy h.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/2/) — stIi! (stop!) and zachekAi! (wait!, hang on!) matter off the pitch too, for example when the ball rolls towards the road.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/3/) — Claiming things has its own magic word, chur!, like «bagsy!» or «dibs!»: chur meNE! is «bags me!» and chur ne ya! is «not me!».
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/4/) — futbOl means football, the game the friends play in the park; futbolka, which sounds similar, is a T-shirt.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/5/) — hOL! means goal!, shouted when someone scores; the h is breathy and soft.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/6/) — daI pas! means pass it to me!
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/7/) — stIi! means stop! or wait!, in games and when crossing roads.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/8/) — zachekAi! means wait!, hang on!, asking a friend to wait; chekai is also heard.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/9/) — shvYdshe! means faster! or hurry up!, shouted in races.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/10/) — hrAimo! means let's play!, from hraty, to play, and the answer is often daVAI!
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/12/) — ya v hrI means I'm in, I'm in the game.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/13/) — chur! means bagsy! or dibs!, or calls a time-out: chur meNE! is bags me! and chur ne ya! is not me!
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/14/) — nIchyia means a draw, a tied game.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/15/) — pishlI na mAidanchyk means let's go to the playground; maidanchyk is a little square, and Maidan is also the famous square in Kyiv.

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