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title: The whole family waits at the window for the first star, and only th… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole family waits at the window for the first star, and only then the supper of dvanAdtsyat strav, twelve meatless dishes, begins. Who acts: whole family, supper. A sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 4

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The whole family waits at the window for the first star, and only then the supper of dvanAdtsyat strav, twelve meatless dishes, begins.

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**Who acts:** whole family, supper · **What happens:** wait, begin · **To what, where:** window

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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 (whole family, supper), 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:4
# text = The whole family waits at the window for the first star, and only then the supper of dvanAdtsyat strav, twelve meatless dishes, begins.
# 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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	dvanAdtsyat	dvaNAdtsyat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	strav	strav	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	meatless	meatless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present | the whole family |  |  | the window |  | for the first star | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location |
| 2 | **begin** | present | the supper of dvanAdtsyat strav |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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**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:4`.

**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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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