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title: "SvYat-vechir" means Holy Evening, Christmas Eve, a big family suppe… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: "SvYat-vechir" means Holy Evening, Christmas Eve, a big family supper that starts when the first star appears in the sky. Who acts: SvYat vechir, big family supper, first star. A sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 14

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"SvYat-vechir" means Holy Evening, Christmas Eve, a big family supper that starts when the first star appears in the sky.

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**Who acts:** SvYat vechir, big family supper, first star · **What happens:** mean, start, appear · **To what, where:** Holy Evening, sky

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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 (SvYat vechir, big family supper, first star), 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:14
# text = "SvYat-vechir" means Holy Evening, Christmas Eve, a big family supper that starts when the first star appears in the sky.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	SvYat	SvYat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
4	vechir	vechir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Evening	Evening	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | SvYat vechir | Holy Evening |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evening=Topic |
| 2 | **start** | present | a big family supper |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **appear** | present | the first star |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |

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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:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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