--- title: "zhAba" means frog or toad; as an insult it means an ugly or greedy… — Farm animals, forest animals and pets · tree and pragmatics description: "zhAba" means frog or toad; as an insult it means an ugly or greedy person, and "zhAba davyt", "the toad squeezes", means someone is greedy or envious. Who acts: zhAba, ryba, zhAba davyt, someone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (zhAba, ryba, zhAba davyt, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:022-farm-forest-animals-and-pets.lesson:12 # text = "zhAba" means frog or toad; as an insult it means an ugly or greedy person, and "zhAba davyt", "the toad squeezes", means someone is greedy or envious. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ukrainian-street # lesson = 022-farm-forest-animals-and-pets.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 2 zhAba zhAba PROPN ADD _ 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 zhAba zhAba PROPN ADD _ 23 compound _ _ 23 davyt davyt NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 squeezes squeeze NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 appos _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 33 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 ccomp _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 envious envious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | zhAba | frog or toad | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | ryba | a ugly person | | | | as a insult | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent person=Topic as insult=Attribute | | 3 | **mean** | present | zhAba davyt | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | someone | | | | | greedy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | someone *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:022-farm-forest-animals-and-pets.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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Farm animals, forest animals and pets, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/11/) - next →: [Farm animals, forest animals and pets, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/)