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title: "durnyk" means "silly, dummy"; among friends it is said laughing, bu… — Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings… · tree and pragmatics
description: "durnyk" means "silly, dummy"; among friends it is said laughing, but said angrily it hurts, and it is never said to adults. Who acts: durnyk, silly. 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 dep
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# Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 5

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"durnyk" means "silly, dummy"; among friends it is said laughing, but said angrily it hurts, and it is never said to adults.

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**Who acts:** durnyk, silly · **What happens:** mean, say, laugh, hurt, not say · **To what, where:** silly, adults · **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 (durnyk, silly), 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:5
# text = "durnyk" means "silly, dummy"; among friends it is said laughing, but said angrily it hurts, and it is never said to adults.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	durnyk	durnyk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	silly	silly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dummy	dummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:expl
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | durnyk | silly |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silly=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | silly |  |  |  | among friends | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | durnyk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **hurt** | present | silly |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | silly | adults |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=Recipient |

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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:5`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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