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title: "Rizdvo" means Christmas; since 2023 Ukraine's official Christmas is… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: "Rizdvo" means Christmas; since 2023 Ukraine's official Christmas is on 25 December, and some families still celebrate on 7 January. Who acts: Rizdvo, official Christmas, families. A sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary s
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 12

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"Rizdvo" means Christmas; since 2023 Ukraine's official Christmas is on 25 December, and some families still celebrate on 7 January.

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**Who acts:** Rizdvo, official Christmas, families · **What happens:** mean, be, celebrate · **To what, where:** Christmas, 25, 7

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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 (Rizdvo, official Christmas, families), 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:12
# text = "Rizdvo" means Christmas; since 2023 Ukraine's official Christmas is on 25 December, and some families still celebrate on 7 January.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Rizdvo	Rizdvo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	since	since	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
9	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
16	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
25	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Rizdvo | Christmas |  |  | since 2023 |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | Ukraine's official Christmas |  |  | 25 | december |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **celebrate** | present | some families |  |  | 7  January | still |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:027-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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