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title: The best way into a group of kids anywhere is a ball, and the best U… — Football, wait, let's play and bagsy · tree and pragmatics
description: 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! Who acts: best way, I. A sentence of the lesson «Football, wait, let's play and bagsy» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary
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# Football, wait, let's play and bagsy, sentence 0

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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!

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**Who acts:** best way, I · **What happens:** be, play, answer · **To what, where:** ball

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Football, wait, let's play and bagsy» 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 (best way, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:015-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy.lesson:0
# text = 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!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 015-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
17	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	mozhna	mozhna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	vAmy	vamy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	parataxis	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
34	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	daVAI	daVAI	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	obl	_	_
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	35	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 | **is a** | present | the best way into a group of kids | a ball |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for mozhna z vAmy | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | can | I |  |  |  |  | with you | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | a ball |  |  |  | with daVAI; usually *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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:015-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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