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title: "protYah" means a draught, and many Ukrainian grannies close the win… — Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomor… · tree and pragmatics
description: "protYah" means a draught, and many Ukrainian grannies close the windows because they believe a draught makes you ill. Who acts: protYah, many Ukrainian grannies, draught. A sentence of the lesson «Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary 
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# Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow, sentence 7

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"protYah" means a draught, and many Ukrainian grannies close the windows because they believe a draught makes you ill.

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**Who acts:** protYah, many Ukrainian grannies, draught · **What happens:** mean, close, believe, make · **To what, where:** draught, windows, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (protYah, many Ukrainian grannies, draught), 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:7
# text = "protYah" means a draught, and many Ukrainian grannies close the windows because they believe a draught makes you ill.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	protYah	protyah	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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grannies	granny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | protYah | a draught |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Topic |
| 2 | **close** | present | many Ukrainian grannies | the windows |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient |
| 3 | **believe** | present | protYah |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | present | a draught | you |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

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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): no change. **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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