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title: "KhrystOs rodYvsya!" means "Christ is born!", the Christmas greeting… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: "KhrystOs rodYvsya!" means "Christ is born!", the Christmas greeting, and the fixed answer is "SlAvimo Yoho!", "Let us praise Him!". Who acts: fixed answer, us. A sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 13

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"KhrystOs rodYvsya!" means "Christ is born!", the Christmas greeting, and the fixed answer is "SlAvimo Yoho!", "Let us praise Him!".

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**Who acts:** fixed answer, us · **What happens:** rodyvsya, mean, bear, fix, be, let · **To what, where:** Christ, SlAvimo Yoho, us · **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 (fixed answer, us), 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:13
# text = "KhrystOs rodYvsya!" means "Christ is born!", the Christmas greeting, and the fixed answer is "SlAvimo Yoho!", "Let us praise Him!".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	KhrystOs	KhrystOs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj
3	rodYvsya	rodyvsya	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
24	SlAvimo	SlAvimo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Yoho	Yoho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
30	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **rodyvsya** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bear** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Christ |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the fixed answer | SlAvimo Yoho |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **praise** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | Christ |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

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