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title: shcho NOvoho? means what's new?, asked between friends; the answer c… — Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no · tree and pragmatics
description: shcho NOvoho? means what's new?, asked between friends; the answer can be nIchoho (nothing) or a piece of news. Who acts: answer. A sentence of the lesson «Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no, sentence 9

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shcho NOvoho? means what's new?, asked between friends; the answer can be nIchoho (nothing) or a piece of news.

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**Who acts:** answer · **What happens:** mean, be, ask · **To what, where:** nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no» 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 (answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:002-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no.lesson:9
# text = shcho NOvoho? means what's new?, asked between friends; the answer can be nIchoho (nothing) or a piece of news.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 002-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	shcho	shcho	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	NOvoho	NOvoho	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	nIchoho	nichoho	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	appos	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	parataxis	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  | between friends | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | can | the answer | nothing |  |  |  |  | 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): R6-punct-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.

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