--- title: Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When it snows, Sashko builds a snIhovyk, a snowman, and shouts "hraimo v snizhky!", let's have a snowball fig --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/) / Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today… # Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow Lesson 24 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/0/) — When it snows, Sashko builds a snIhovyk, a snowman, and shouts "hraimo v snizhky!", let's have a snowball fight! - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/1/) — But first his granny blocks the door: "odYahnysya!" — put your coat on! — and she won't let anyone out "bez shapky", without a woolly hat, even on a mild day. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/2/) — Ukrainian grannies also fear the protYah, a draught, and shut every window, believing it "will make you ill"; doctors say colds come from germs, not from moving air, but you just smile and close the window. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/3/) — Then time words: sohOdni (today), zAvtra (tomorrow), vchOra (yesterday), potIm (later), and the tricky "zaraz", which can mean "right now" or "in a minute" — when mum says "zaraz", you wait. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/4/) — "snIhovyk" means snowman, and "snizhky" means snowballs or a snowball fight, as in "hraimo v snizhky!". - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/5/) — "odYahnysya!" means "put your coat on! dress up warm!", said by the friend's mum or granny at the door. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/6/) — "shapka" means a woolly hat; "bez shapky", without a hat, worries grannies even in mild weather. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/7/) — "protYah" means a draught, and many Ukrainian grannies close the windows because they believe a draught makes you ill. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/8/) — Colds are caused by viruses, not by a draught, but it is polite to respect the granny's worry. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/9/) — "sohOdni" means today, as in "sohOdni hraiemo?", are we playing today? - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/10/) — "zAvtra" means tomorrow, and "vchOra" means yesterday. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/11/) — "zaraz" means "now, right now" and also "in a minute"; "zaraz!" can mean "coming!". - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/12/) — "potIm" means later or afterwards, and kids use it to put things off. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/13/) — "ranok", "den", "vechir" and "nich" mean morning, day, evening and night. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/14/) — "kotra hodyna?" means "what time is it?", and the answer is "pershA" (one o'clock), "druha" (two) and so on. - ← previous: [Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/) - next →: [What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons/) - ↑ back to [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/)