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title: "pomyi ruky" means "wash your hands", and the friend's mum will say… — Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies · tree and pragmatics
description: "pomyi ruky" means "wash your hands", and the friend's mum will say it before every meal. Who acts: pomyi ruky, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies, sentence 11

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"pomyi ruky" means "wash your hands", and the friend's mum will say it before every meal.

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**Who acts:** pomyi ruky, mum · **What happens:** mean, wash, say · **To what, where:** hands, ruky · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies» 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 (pomyi ruky, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:021-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies.lesson:11
# text = "pomyi ruky" means "wash your hands", and the friend's mum will say it before every meal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 021-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies.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	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	pomyi	pomyi	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	ruky	ruky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | pomyi ruky |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wash** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your hands |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | the friend's mum | ruky |  |  | before every meal |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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.

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