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title: You will also hear about "mat" or "matyuky", the strong swear words;… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: You will also hear about "mat" or "matyuky", the strong swear words; know only that they exist and shock grannies — never say them at a friend's home — and if an adult says "ne lai!", don't swear, you answer "vybachte". Who acts: You, phrases, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing —
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 2

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You will also hear about "mat" or "matyuky", the strong swear words; know only that they exist and shock grannies — never say them at a friend's home — and if an adult says "ne lai!", don't swear, you answer "vybachte".

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**Who acts:** You, phrases, adult · **What happens:** hear, know, exist, shock, not say, say · **To what, where:** grannies, phrases, home, ne, vybachte · **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 (You, phrases, adult), 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:2
# text = You will also hear about "mat" or "matyuky", the strong swear words; know only that they exist and shock grannies — never say them at a friend's home — and if an adult says "ne lai!", don't swear, you answer "vybachte".
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	matyuky	matyuky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	swear	swear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
25	shock	shock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	grannies	granny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
43	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	lai	lai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	dep	_	_
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
48	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	swear	swear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	_
55	vybachte	vybachte	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	55	punct	_	_
57	.	.	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 | **hear** | future | You |  |  |  |  | about mat or matyuky | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about mat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **exist** | present | phrases *= phrase* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shock** | present | phrases *= phrase* *not said here* | grannies |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus granny=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | phrases *= phrase* |  | a friend's home |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a adult | ne |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ne=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **swear** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | you | vybachte |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent vybachte=Eventuality |

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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): R1-cc-next ×3, R7-rel-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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