--- title: "ne lai" means "don't swear", said by an adult telling a kid off, an… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics description: "ne lai" means "don't swear", said by an adult telling a kid off, and the answer is "vybachte". Who acts: ne, kid, answer. A sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/) / [Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/) / 10 # Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 10 "ne lai" means "don't swear", said by an adult telling a kid off, and the answer is "vybachte". **Who acts:** ne, kid, answer · **What happens:** mean, not swear, say, tell off, be · **To what, where:** adult, vybachte · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (ne, kid, answer), 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:10 # text = "ne lai" means "don't swear", said by an adult telling a kid off, and the answer is "vybachte". # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 ne ne X FW Foreign=Yes 5 nsubj _ _ 3 lai lai X FW Foreign=Yes 2 flat:foreign _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 swear swear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:agent _ _ 16 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 vybachte vybachte NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | ne | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **swear** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | gerund | a kid | a adult *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the answer | vybachte | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:027-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve.lesson:10`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/9/) - next →: [Only joking! 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