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title: "zavzhdy" means always and "nikoly" means never: "ty zavzhdy vyhraie… — What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: "zavzhdy" means always and "nikoly" means never: "ty zavzhdy vyhraiesh!" means "you always win!". Who acts: zavzhdy, nikoly, zavzhdy vyhraiesh, you. A sentence of the lesson «What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons, sentence 13

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"zavzhdy" means always and "nikoly" means never: "ty zavzhdy vyhraiesh!" means "you always win!".

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**Who acts:** zavzhdy, nikoly, zavzhdy vyhraiesh, you · **What happens:** mean, not mean, win · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons» 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 (zavzhdy, nikoly, zavzhdy vyhraiesh, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:025-what-time-days-weeks-seasons.lesson:13
# text = "zavzhdy" means always and "nikoly" means never: "ty zavzhdy vyhraiesh!" means "you always win!".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 025-what-time-days-weeks-seasons.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	zavzhdy	zavzhdy	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	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	nikoly	nikoly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	ty	ty	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	zavzhdy	zavzhdy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	vyhraiesh	vyhraiesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	.	.	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 | zavzhdy |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present | nikoly |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | zavzhdy vyhraiesh |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **win** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R7-rel-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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