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title: "nis" means nose and sounds like the English word "niece". — Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body · tree and pragmatics
description: "nis" means nose and sounds like the English word "niece". Who acts: nis. A sentence of the lesson «Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body, sentence 10

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"nis" means nose and sounds like the English word "niece".

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**Who acts:** nis · **What happens:** mean, sound · **To what, where:** nose

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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 (nis), 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:10
# text = "nis" means nose and sounds like the English word "niece".
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	nis	nis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	niece	niece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | nis | nose |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** | present | nis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the English word | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:020-head-hands-feet-and-the-body.lesson:10`.

**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): 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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