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title: "tormoz", literally "brake", means a slowcoach, someone slow to get… — Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings… · tree and pragmatics
description: "tormoz", literally "brake", means a slowcoach, someone slow to get a joke; it is mildly mean but fine between pals. Who acts: tormoz. 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 an
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# Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 8

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"tormoz", literally "brake", means a slowcoach, someone slow to get a joke; it is mildly mean but fine between pals.

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**Who acts:** tormoz · **What happens:** mean, get, be · **To what, where:** slowcoach, joke

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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 (tormoz), 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:8
# text = "tormoz", literally "brake", means a slowcoach, someone slow to get a joke; it is mildly mean but fine between pals.
# 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	tormoz	tormoz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	slowcoach	slowcoach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
15	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	mildly	mildly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
24	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	pals	pal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | tormoz | a slowcoach |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slowcoach=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | tormoz *not said here* | a joke |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | tormoz |  |  |  |  | mean, mildly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | tormoz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between pals | 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:8`.

**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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