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title: "ne plAch" means "don't cry" and is said to comfort a smaller child;… — Hungry, tired, hurt, offended, missing someone · tree and pragmatics
description: "ne plAch" means "don't cry" and is said to comfort a smaller child; calling someone a "plaksa", a crybaby, is unkind. Who acts: ne plAch. A sentence of the lesson «Hungry, tired, hurt, offended, missing someone» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Hungry, tired, hurt, offended, missing someone, sentence 12

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"ne plAch" means "don't cry" and is said to comfort a smaller child; calling someone a "plaksa", a crybaby, is unkind.

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**Who acts:** ne plAch · **What happens:** mean, not cry, say, comfort, call, be · **To what, where:** smaller child, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hungry, tired, hurt, offended, missing someone» 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 (ne plAch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:019-hungry-tired-hurt-offended-missing-someone.lesson:12
# text = "ne plAch" means "don't cry" and is said to comfort a smaller child; calling someone a "plaksa", a crybaby, is unkind.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 019-hungry-tired-hurt-offended-missing-someone.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plAch	plach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	comfort	comfort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	plaksa	plaksa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crybaby	crybaby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | ne plAch |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | ne plAch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Topic |
| 4 | **comfort** | to-infinitive | ne plAch *not said here* | a smaller child |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
| 5 | **call** | gerund |  |  | someone |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | present | ne plAch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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