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title: Calling a person "korOva", "svynya" or "zhAba" is rude — but "zaichy… — Farm animals, forest animals and pets · tree and pragmatics
description: Calling a person "korOva", "svynya" or "zhAba" is rude — but "zaichyk", little hare, and "rybka", little fish, are loving names for small children. Who acts: Calling, zaichyk. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Farm animals, forest animals and pets, sentence 3

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Calling a person "korOva", "svynya" or "zhAba" is rude — but "zaichyk", little hare, and "rybka", little fish, are loving names for small children.

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**Who acts:** Calling, zaichyk · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** person, loving names · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» 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 (Calling, zaichyk), 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:3
# text = Calling a person "korOva", "svynya" or "zhAba" is rude — but "zaichyk", little hare, and "rybka", little fish, are loving names for small children.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	korOva	korova	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	svynya	svynya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	zhAba	zhAba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	zaichyk	zaichyk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	rybka	rybka	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	conj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Calling |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | zaichyk and little hare and rybka | loving names |  |  |  | for small children | tree rules |

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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:022-farm-forest-animals-and-pets.lesson:3`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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