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title: "potIm" means later or afterwards, and kids use it to put things off. — Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomor… · tree and pragmatics
description: "potIm" means later or afterwards, and kids use it to put things off. Who acts: potIm, kids. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow, sentence 12

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"potIm" means later or afterwards, and kids use it to put things off.

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**Who acts:** potIm, kids · **What happens:** mean, use, put off · **To what, where:** potIm, things

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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 (potIm, kids), 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:12
# text = "potIm" means later or afterwards, and kids use it to put things off.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	potIm	potim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | potIm |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **use** | present | kids | potIm |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **put off** | to-infinitive | kids *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal |

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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): R8-pos-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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