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title: "dvanAdtsyat strav" means the twelve dishes of the Christmas Eve sup… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: "dvanAdtsyat strav" means the twelve dishes of the Christmas Eve supper; they are meatless, such as kutia (sweet wheat with honey and poppy seeds), borshch, varenyky, fish and mushrooms. Who acts: dvanAdtsyat strav, dishes. A sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» of the 
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 15

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"dvanAdtsyat strav" means the twelve dishes of the Christmas Eve supper; they are meatless, such as kutia (sweet wheat with honey and poppy seeds), borshch, varenyky, fish and mushrooms.

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**Who acts:** dvanAdtsyat strav, dishes · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** twelve dishes

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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 (dvanAdtsyat strav, dishes), 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:15
# text = "dvanAdtsyat strav" means the twelve dishes of the Christmas Eve supper; they are meatless, such as kutia (sweet wheat with honey and poppy seeds), borshch, varenyky, fish and mushrooms.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	dvanAdtsyat	dvanAdtsyat	PROPN	ADD	_	3	compound	_	_
3	strav	strav	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	meatless	meatless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	kutia	kutia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
23	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	poppy	poppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	borshch	borshch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	varenyky	varenyky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	appos	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:appos
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | dvanAdtsyat strav | the twelve dishes of the Eve supper |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | dishes *= dish* |  |  |  |  | such kutia and borshch and fish and mushrooms; meatless *property* | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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