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title: "boyahuz" means scaredy-cat, used in daring games, and the usual ans… — Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings… · tree and pragmatics
description: "boyahuz" means scaredy-cat, used in daring games, and the usual answer is "ya ne boiusya!", I'm not scared! Who acts: boyahuz, usual answer, I. A sentence of the lesson «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 13

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"boyahuz" means scaredy-cat, used in daring games, and the usual answer is "ya ne boiusya!", I'm not scared!

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**Who acts:** boyahuz, usual answer, I · **What happens:** mean, use, be, not be · **To what, where:** scaredy cat, daring games, ya ne boiusya · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» 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 (boyahuz, usual answer, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:026-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults.lesson:13
# text = "boyahuz" means scaredy-cat, used in daring games, and the usual answer is "ya ne boiusya!", I'm not scared!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 026-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults.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 ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	boyahuz	boyahuz	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	scaredy	scaredy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	daring	daring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
20	ya	ya	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	boiusya	boiusya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | boyahuz | scaredy cat |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | scaredy cat *not said here* |  | daring games |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the usual answer | ya ne boiusya |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:ukrainian-street:026-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults.lesson:13`.

**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 ×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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