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title: Then the best night of winter: SvYat-vechir, Holy Evening, Christmas… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the best night of winter: SvYat-vechir, Holy Evening, Christmas Eve. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 3

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Then the best night of winter: SvYat-vechir, Holy Evening, Christmas Eve.

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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: 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:3
# text = Then the best night of winter: SvYat-vechir, Holy Evening, Christmas Eve.
# 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
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	SvYat	SvYat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	vechir	vechir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Eve.	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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): R5-strong ×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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