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title: "ruchka" means pen and also "little hand", so "daI ruchku" can mean… — Marks, exercise books, tests and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: "ruchka" means pen and also "little hand", so "daI ruchku" can mean "give me a pen" or "give me your hand". Who acts: ruchka, daI. A sentence of the lesson «Marks, exercise books, tests and holidays» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Marks, exercise books, tests and holidays, sentence 9

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"ruchka" means pen and also "little hand", so "daI ruchku" can mean "give me a pen" or "give me your hand".

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**Who acts:** ruchka, daI · **What happens:** mean, give · **To what, where:** pen, dvanAdtsyat, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Marks, exercise books, tests and holidays» 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 (ruchka, daI), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:017-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays.lesson:9
# text = "ruchka" means pen and also "little hand", so "daI ruchku" can mean "give me a pen" or "give me your hand".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 017-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	ruchka	ruchka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	daI	daI	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	nsubj	_	_
16	ruchku	ruchku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | ruchka | pen and little hand |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | can | daI |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | daI *not said here* | a pen | dvanAdtsyat |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pen=Theme |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | daI *not said here* | your hand | dvanAdtsyat |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hand=Theme |

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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:017-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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