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title: A Ukrainian cat says "myAu", a dog says "hav-hav", and a rooster say… — Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows · tree and pragmatics
description: A Ukrainian cat says "myAu", a dog says "hav-hav", and a rooster says "ku-ku-ri-ku". Who acts: Ukrainian cat, dog, rooster. A sentence of the lesson «Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows, sentence 4

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A Ukrainian cat says "myAu", a dog says "hav-hav", and a rooster says "ku-ku-ri-ku".

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**Who acts:** Ukrainian cat, dog, rooster · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** myAu, hav, ku ri ku · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows» 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 (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:4
# text = 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	myAu	myau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	hav	hav	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hav	hav	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
23	ku	ku	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	ku	ku	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	ri	RI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	ku	ku	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Ukrainian cat | myAu |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent myau=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a dog | hav |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hav=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a rooster | ku ri ku |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ku=Topic |

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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:023-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows.lesson:4`.

**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. **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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