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title: "snIhovyk" means snowman, and "snizhky" means snowballs or a snowbal… — Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomor… · tree and pragmatics
description: "snIhovyk" means snowman, and "snizhky" means snowballs or a snowball fight, as in "hraimo v snizhky!". Who acts: snIhovyk, snizhky. 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
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# Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow, sentence 4

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"snIhovyk" means snowman, and "snizhky" means snowballs or a snowball fight, as in "hraimo v snizhky!".

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**Who acts:** snIhovyk, snizhky · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** snowman, snowballs

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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 (snIhovyk, snizhky), 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:4
# text = "snIhovyk" means snowman, and "snizhky" means snowballs or a snowball fight, as in "hraimo v snizhky!".
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	snIhovyk	snihovyk	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	snowman	snowman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	snizhky	snizhky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	snowballs	snowball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	snowball	snowball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	hraimo	hraimo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	v	v	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	snizhky	snizhky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | snIhovyk | snowman |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowman=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | snizhky | snowballs or a snowball fight and snizhky |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowball=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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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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