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title: "kozel" means goat, and as an insult it means a jerk; using animal n… — Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings… · tree and pragmatics
description: "kozel" means goat, and as an insult it means a jerk; using animal names (korOva, svynya, kozel) for people is rude. Who acts: kozel, goat, using. 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 depend
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# Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 15

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"kozel" means goat, and as an insult it means a jerk; using animal names (korOva, svynya, kozel) for people is rude.

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**Who acts:** kozel, goat, using · **What happens:** mean, use, be · **To what, where:** goat, jerk, animal names

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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 (kozel, goat, using), 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:15
# text = "kozel" means goat, and as an insult it means a jerk; using animal names (korOva, svynya, kozel) for people is rude.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	kozel	kozel	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	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	jerk	jerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	csubj	_	_
17	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	korOva	korova	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	svynya	svynya	NOUN	NN	_	20	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:list
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	kozel	kozel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | kozel | goat |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | goat | a jerk |  |  |  | as a insult | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent jerk=Topic as insult=Attribute |
| 3 | **use** | gerund |  | animal names |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | using |  |  |  |  | for people; rude *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:15`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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