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title: "zUby" means teeth, and "chystyty zUby" means to brush your teeth. — Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body · tree and pragmatics
description: "zUby" means teeth, and "chystyty zUby" means to brush your teeth. Who acts: zUby, chystyty zUby. 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 12

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"zUby" means teeth, and "chystyty zUby" means to brush your teeth.

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**Who acts:** zUby, chystyty zUby · **What happens:** mean, brush · **To what, where:** teeth

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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 (zUby, chystyty zUby), 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:12
# text = "zUby" means teeth, and "chystyty zUby" means to brush your teeth.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	zUby	zuby	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	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	chystyty	chystyty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	zUby	zuby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	brush	brush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | zUby | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | chystyty zUby |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **brush** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | chystyty zUby *not said here* | your teeth |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=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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**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): no change. **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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