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title: Three phrases fix it: "tse prykol" (it's a joke), "ya pozhartuvav" (… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: Three phrases fix it: "tse prykol" (it's a joke), "ya pozhartuvav" (I was joking) and "ne obrazhaisya" (don't be offended) — said kindly, with a real sorry. Who acts: Three phrases, tease, I. A sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» of the ukrainian street course of Mova'
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 1

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Three phrases fix it: "tse prykol" (it's a joke), "ya pozhartuvav" (I was joking) and "ne obrazhaisya" (don't be offended) — said kindly, with a real sorry.

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**Who acts:** Three phrases, tease, I · **What happens:** fix, be, joke, not offend, say · **To what, where:** tease, joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» 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 (Three phrases, tease, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:027-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve.lesson:1
# text = Three phrases fix it: "tse prykol" (it's a joke), "ya pozhartuvav" (I was joking) and "ne obrazhaisya" (don't be offended) — said kindly, with a real sorry.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 027-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	tse	tse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	prykol	prykol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
18	ya	ya	X	FW	_	19	compound	_	_
19	pozhartuvav	pozhartuvav	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	obrazhaisya	obrazhaisya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	ccomp	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
32	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:cop
35	offended	offend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
38	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
39	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	sorry	sorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | infinitive | Three phrases | tease |  |  |  | prykol ya pozhartuvav *obl* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | tease | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **joke** *speech: other* | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **offend** | infinitive · passive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a real sorry; kindly *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sorry=Manner |

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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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**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 ×1, R8-pos-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.

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