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title: "kolyadky" are carols; children go from house to house singing them,… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: "kolyadky" are carols; children go from house to house singing them, and the hosts give sweets or coins. Who acts: kolyadky, children, hosts. 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 
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 16

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"kolyadky" are carols; children go from house to house singing them, and the hosts give sweets or coins.

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**Who acts:** kolyadky, children, hosts · **What happens:** be, go, sing, give · **To what, where:** carols, house, children, sweets

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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 (kolyadky, children, hosts), 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:16
# text = "kolyadky" are carols; children go from house to house singing them, and the hosts give sweets or coins.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	kolyadky	kolyadky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	carols	carol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
22	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **is a** | present | kolyadky | carols |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | children |  |  | house to house |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | children *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | the hosts | sweets or coins |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=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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**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:16`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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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