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title: Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Animals "speak" differently in every language: a Ukrainian cat says "myAu", a dog says "hav-hav", and a rooster says 
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# Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows

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Lesson 23 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/0/) — Animals "speak" differently in every language: a Ukrainian cat says "myAu", a dog says "hav-hav", and a rooster says "ku-ku-ri-ku".
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/1/) — Ukrainian rain doesn't fall, it goes: "ide doshch" is "rain is going", it's raining, and "ide snih" is it's snowing — and Sashko's mum will answer "bery parasolku", take an umbrella.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/2/) — Watch two words that sound almost alike: "kholodno" (it's cold, with a rough kh) and "hoLOdnyi" (hungry, with a soft h).
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/3/) — After the rain comes the veselka, the rainbow — from veselyi, cheerful, so it's "the merry one" — and kalyuzhi, puddles, which every kid jumps in while mum shouts "ne liz u kalyuzhu!".
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/4/) — A Ukrainian cat says "myAu", a dog says "hav-hav", and a rooster says "ku-ku-ri-ku".
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/5/) — "pohOda" means weather; "yaka pohOda?" means "what's the weather like?", and "nepohoda" means bad weather.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/6/) — "sOnyachno" means sunny; "sontse" means the sun.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/7/) — "ide doshch" means "it's raining", literally "rain is going", and the usual reply is "bery parasolku", take an umbrella.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/8/) — "ide snih" means "it's snowing", literally "snow is going", and kids answer "urA!".
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/9/) — "kholodno" means "it's cold"; a mum may say "odyahnysya teplishe", dress warmer.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/11/) — "zharko" means "it's hot", and "tEplo" means "it's warm".
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/12/) — "vItEr" means wind, and "sylnyi vItEr" means a strong wind.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/13/) — "hrIm" means thunder and "blyskavka" means lightning; in a storm the safe place is indoors.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/15/) — "kalyuzha" means puddle, and "ne liz u kalyuzhu!" means "don't go in the puddle!".

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