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title: English cuts the body into more pieces than Ukrainian does: where En… — Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body · tree and pragmatics
description: English cuts the body into more pieces than Ukrainian does: where English has "arm" and "hand", Ukrainian has one word, ruka; where English has "leg" and "foot", one word, nOha; and pAlets is both a finger and a toe. Who acts: English, Ukrainian. A sentence of the lesson «Head, hands, feet and the r
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# Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body, sentence 0

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English cuts the body into more pieces than Ukrainian does: where English has "arm" and "hand", Ukrainian has one word, ruka; where English has "leg" and "foot", one word, nOha; and pAlets is both a finger and a toe.

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**Who acts:** English, Ukrainian · **What happens:** cut, have, be · **To what, where:** body, more pieces, arm, one word, leg, finger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body» 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 (English, Ukrainian), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:020-head-hands-feet-and-the-body.lesson:0
# text = English cuts the body into more pieces than Ukrainian does: where English has "arm" and "hand", Ukrainian has one word, ruka; where English has "leg" and "foot", one word, nOha; and pAlets is both a finger and a toe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 020-head-hands-feet-and-the-body.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
9	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
23	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	ruka	ruka	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
31	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
38	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:nsubj
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	nOha	nOha	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	42	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	pAlets	palet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc:preconj	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **cut** | present · do-support | English | the body |  | more pieces |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent body=Material into piece=Product |
| 2 | **have** | present | English | arm and hand |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | Ukrainian | one word |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present | English | leg and foot and one word and pAlets |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | English *not said here* | a finger and a toe |  |  |  |  | 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 ×5, R7-rel-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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