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title: "sam takYi!" means "takes one to know one!", the standard comeback;… — Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings… · tree and pragmatics
description: "sam takYi!" means "takes one to know one!", the standard comeback; a girl says "sama taka!". Who acts: sam, girl. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 6

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"sam takYi!" means "takes one to know one!", the standard comeback; a girl says "sama taka!".

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**Who acts:** sam, girl · **What happens:** mean, take, know, say · **To what, where:** one, sama taka · **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 (sam, girl), 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:6
# text = "sam takYi!" means "takes one to know one!", the standard comeback; a girl says "sama taka!".
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	sam	sam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	takYi	takYi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	comeback	comeback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
24	sama	sama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	taka	taka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | sam |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | present |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a girl | sama taka |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent taka=Topic |

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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:6`.

**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, 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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