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title: Some names are gentle (bAlakun, chatterbox), some sting (zhadIba, gr… — Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some names are gentle (bAlakun, chatterbox), some sting (zhadIba, greedy guts; yabeda, snitch; plaksa, crybaby), and some are real insults: duren (fool), and animal names like kozel (goat, meaning jerk). Who acts: names, some, jerk. A sentence of the lesson «Friendly name-calling and real insults (m
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# Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 2

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Some names are gentle (bAlakun, chatterbox), some sting (zhadIba, greedy guts; yabeda, snitch; plaksa, crybaby), and some are real insults: duren (fool), and animal names like kozel (goat, meaning jerk).

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**Who acts:** names, some, jerk · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** real insults

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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 (names, some, jerk), 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:2
# text = Some names are gentle (bAlakun, chatterbox), some sting (zhadIba, greedy guts; yabeda, snitch; plaksa, crybaby), and some are real insults: duren (fool), and animal names like kozel (goat, meaning jerk).
# 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 ×4
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bAlakun	balakun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	chatterbox	chatterbox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	zhadIba	zhadIba	X	FW	_	12	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	guts	gut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	yabeda	yabeda	NOUN	NN	_	21	appos	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	snitch	snitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	plaksa	plaksa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	crybaby	crybaby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:det
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	insults	insult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
34	duren	duren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
36	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj
42	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	kozel	kozel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
45	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	acl	_	_
48	jerk	jerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
49	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
50	.	.	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 | **is** | present | some names |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | some | real insults and jerk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | jerk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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**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:2`.

**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 ×4. **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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