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title: "korOva" means cow; calling a person "korOva" is an insult. — Farm animals, forest animals and pets · tree and pragmatics
description: "korOva" means cow; calling a person "korOva" is an insult. Who acts: korOva, person, calling. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Farm animals, forest animals and pets, sentence 5

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"korOva" means cow; calling a person "korOva" is an insult.

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**Who acts:** korOva, person, calling · **What happens:** mean, call, be · **To what, where:** cow, insult · **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 (korOva, person, calling), 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:5
# text = "korOva" means cow; calling a person "korOva" is an insult.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	korOva	korova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	korOva	korova	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- 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 | korOva | cow |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | a person |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | calling | a insult |  |  |  |  | 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:5`.

**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): 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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