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title: Neighbours greet each other "KhrystOs rodYvsya!" — Christ is born! —… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: Neighbours greet each other "KhrystOs rodYvsya!" — Christ is born! — and the fixed answer is "SlAvimo Yoho!", let us praise Him; children go from house to house singing kolyadky, carols, and get sweets or coins. Who acts: Neighbours, fixed answer, us, children. A sentence of the lesson «Only joking!
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 5

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Neighbours greet each other "KhrystOs rodYvsya!" — Christ is born! — and the fixed answer is "SlAvimo Yoho!", let us praise Him; children go from house to house singing kolyadky, carols, and get sweets or coins.

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**Who acts:** Neighbours, fixed answer, us, children, kolyadky · **What happens:** greet, bear, fix, be, let, praise · **To what, where:** other KhrystOs, Christ, SlAvimo Yoho, us, house, sweets · **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 (Neighbours, fixed answer, us, children), 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:5
# text = Neighbours greet each other "KhrystOs rodYvsya!" — Christ is born! — and the fixed answer is "SlAvimo Yoho!", let us praise Him; children go from house to house singing kolyadky, carols, and get 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 ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
6	KhrystOs	khrysto	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	rodYvsya	rodyvsya	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	SlAvimo	SlAvimo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Yoho	Yoho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:acl
39	kolyadky	kolyadky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:compound
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
41	carols	carol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
45	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=45:cc
47	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Neighbours |  | each other KhrystOs  rodYvsya |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent khrysto=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | present · passive |  | Christ |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the fixed answer | SlAvimo Yoho |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **praise** | infinitive | us *not said here* | Christ |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | present | children |  |  | house |  | to house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from house=Initial\_Location to house=Destination |
| 8 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | kolyadky and carols |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **get** | infinitive |  | sweets or coins |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweet=Stimulus |

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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 ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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