--- title: Marks, exercise books, tests and holidays — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Marks, exercise books, tests and holidays», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Sashko waves his exercise book in the air and shouts "dvanAdtsyat!" — twelve! --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/) [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/) / Marks, exercise books, tests and holid… # Marks, exercise books, tests and holidays Lesson 17 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 16 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/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/0/) — Sashko waves his exercise book in the air and shouts "dvanAdtsyat!" — twelve! - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/1/) — In Ukrainian schools that is the very top mark, so you answer "krutO!". - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/2/) — A "dvoyka", a two, is the opposite: "I got a two" means the test went badly. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/3/) — Packing the bag for school you will hear the things inside: pidrUchnyk (textbook), zOshyt (exercise book), ruchka (pen), olIvets (pencil) — and the bag itself, ryukzAk. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/4/) — Then come the moans every kid knows: "zavtra kontrOlna" (a test tomorrow), "nudno na urOtsi" (the lesson's boring), "ya ne zrobyv" (I didn't do it) and "daI spysAty" (let me copy). - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/5/) — And the best word of all: kanIkuly, the school holidays, when the dzvinOk, the bell, rings for the last time and everyone shouts "urA!". - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/6/) — "dvanAdtsyat!" means twelve, and said about a mark it means the best possible mark; a "dvoyka" (a two) is a bad mark. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/7/) — "pidrUchnyk" means textbook, and "zOshyt" means exercise book. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/8/) — "zOshyt" is stressed on the first part; the end sounds like a rude English word, so English kids giggle, but in Ukrainian it is a completely normal word. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/9/) — "ruchka" means pen and also "little hand", so "daI ruchku" can mean "give me a pen" or "give me your hand". - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/12/) — "kontrOlna" means a test, and kids often answer "zavtra kontrOlna" with "zhakh!", oh no! - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/13/) — "dzvinOk" means the bell, and the "dz" at its start is one sound, like in "adze". - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/14/) — "nudno na urOtsi" means "it's boring in the lesson"; you moan it to friends, never to the teacher. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/15/) — "ya ne zrobyv" means "I didn't do it" when a boy says it; a girl says "ya ne zrobyla". - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/16/) — "spysAty" means to copy someone's answers; copying is cheating, and a friend may answer "ni, sam roby!", no, do it yourself. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/17/) — "kanIkuly" means the school holidays, and "skoro kanIkuly!" (holidays soon!) gets the answer "urA!". - ← previous: [Can he come out? Home time — and the school day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day/) - next →: [I know! The head — and happy, angry, bored, scared](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/18-i-know-the-head-and-feelings/) - ↑ back to [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/)