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title: Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: You trip in the park and land on your kolIno, your knee: "ya vpAv!" — I fell over — and Sashko asks "vse dobre?",
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# Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies

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Lesson 21 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/0/) — You trip in the park and land on your kolIno, your knee: "ya vpAv!" — I fell over — and Sashko asks "vse dobre?", are you okay?
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/1/) — Next day there's a sinYak, a bruise, and it is named after its colour: syniy means blue, so a bruise is "the blue one".
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/3/) — Then the pets: a cat is kit (a tomcat) or kIshka (a she-cat), a cuddly kitty is kotyk; a dog is pes or sobAka, a puppy tsutsyk; a horse is kIn and a pony kOnyk.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/4/) — Grown-ups use some of these as loving names: "kotyku!" means "darling!", and a little child may be called "serdenko", little heart.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/7/) — "plechE" means shoulder.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/8/) — "lytsE" means face, and "pomyi lytsE" means "wash your face".
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/9/) — "ya vpAv" means "I fell over" when a boy says it; a girl says "ya vpala", and the kind answer is "vse dobre?", are you okay?
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/10/) — "sinYak" means a bruise; it comes from syniy, blue, because of the bruise's colour.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/11/) — "pomyi ruky" means "wash your hands", and the friend's mum will say it before every meal.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/12/) — "kit" means a cat or tomcat and sounds like the English word "kit"; "kIshka" means a she-cat or any cat.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/13/) — "kotyk" means kitty or pussycat, "kotyky" means kitties, and "kotyku!" is also a cuddly word for a person, like "darling".
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/14/) — "pes" and "sobAka" both mean dog; "pes" sounds like "pess" and is not the English word "pest".
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/15/) — "tsutsyk" means puppy or doggie and is a loving word.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/16/) — "kIn" means horse, and "kOnyk" means pony or little horse.

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