--- title: Animals "speak" differently in every language: a Ukrainian cat says… — Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows · tree and pragmatics description: Animals "speak" differently in every language: a Ukrainian cat says "myAu", a dog says "hav-hav", and a rooster says "ku-ku-ri-ku". Who acts: Animals, Ukrainian cat, dog, rooster. 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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 (Animals, Ukrainian cat, dog, rooster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:023-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows.lesson:0 # text = Animals "speak" differently in every language: a Ukrainian cat says "myAu", a dog says "hav-hav", and a rooster says "ku-ku-ri-ku". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ukrainian-street # lesson = 023-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 differently differently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Ukrainian ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 12 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 myAu myau NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 hav have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 24 hav have NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 32 ku ku NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 ku ku NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 ri RI PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 38 ku ku NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 ccomp _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Animals | | | every language | | differently *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Ukrainian cat | myAu | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent myau=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a dog | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | a dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a rooster | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:023-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, 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. 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