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title: "kit" means a cat or tomcat and sounds like the English word "kit";… — Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies · tree and pragmatics
description: "kit" means a cat or tomcat and sounds like the English word "kit"; "kIshka" means a she-cat or any cat. Who acts: kit, kIshka. 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 pragmati
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# Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies, sentence 12

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"kit" means a cat or tomcat and sounds like the English word "kit"; "kIshka" means a she-cat or any cat.

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**Who acts:** kit, kIshka · **What happens:** mean, sound · **To what, where:** cat, she cat

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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 (kit, kIshka), 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:12
# text = "kit" means a cat or tomcat and sounds like the English word "kit"; "kIshka" means a she-cat or any cat.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	kit	kit	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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tomcat	tomcat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	kit	kit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	kIshka	kishka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
26	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | kit | a cat or tomcat |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** | present | kit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the English word | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mean** | present | kIshka | a she cat or any cat |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=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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**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:021-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies.lesson:12`.

**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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