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title: When it snows, Sashko builds a snIhovyk, a snowman, and shouts "hrai… — Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomor… · tree and pragmatics
description: When it snows, Sashko builds a snIhovyk, a snowman, and shouts "hraimo v snizhky!", let's have a snowball fight! Who acts: it, Sashko, 's. A sentence of the lesson «Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow, sentence 0

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When it snows, Sashko builds a snIhovyk, a snowman, and shouts "hraimo v snizhky!", let's have a snowball fight!

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**Who acts:** it, Sashko, 's · **What happens:** snow, build, shout, let, have · **To what, where:** snIhovyk, hraimo, 's, snowball fight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow» 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 (it, Sashko, 's), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:024-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow.lesson:0
# text = When it snows, Sashko builds a snIhovyk, a snowman, and shouts "hraimo v snizhky!", let's have a snowball fight!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 024-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow.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 ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	snows	snow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	snIhovyk	snihovyk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	snowman	snowman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	hraimo	hraimo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	v	v	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	snizhky	snizhky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	's	us	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	snowball	snowball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22: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 | **snow** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 2 | **build** | present | Sashko | a snIhovyk and a snowman |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snihovyk=Product |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Sashko *not said here* | hraimo |  |  |  | v snizhky | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hraimo=Topic |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | infinitive | 's *not said here* | a snowball fight |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient |

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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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**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 ×2. **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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