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title: zachekAi! means wait!, hang on!, asking a friend to wait; chekai is… — Football, wait, let's play and bagsy · tree and pragmatics
description: zachekAi! means wait!, hang on!, asking a friend to wait; chekai is also heard. Who acts: zachekAi. A sentence of the lesson «Football, wait, let's play and bagsy» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Football, wait, let's play and bagsy, sentence 8

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zachekAi! means wait!, hang on!, asking a friend to wait; chekai is also heard.

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**Who acts:** zachekAi · **What happens:** mean, wait, hang on, ask, hear · **To what, where:** friend, chekai

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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 (zachekAi), 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:8
# text = zachekAi! means wait!, hang on!, asking a friend to wait; chekai is also heard.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	zachekAi	zachekAi	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	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	obj	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
7	hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
17	chekai	chekai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | zachekAi |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hang on** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  | a friend |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wait** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hear** | present · passive |  | chekai |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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