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title: "prykol" means a joke or a prank, and "prykolno" means funny; "tse p… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics
description: "prykol" means a joke or a prank, and "prykolno" means funny; "tse prykol", it's a joke, softens a tease. Who acts: prykol, prykolno. 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 pragmati
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# Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 6

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"prykol" means a joke or a prank, and "prykolno" means funny; "tse prykol", it's a joke, softens a tease.

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**Who acts:** prykol, prykolno · **What happens:** mean, be, soften · **To what, where:** joke, tease

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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 (prykol, prykolno), 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:6
# text = "prykol" means a joke or a prank, and "prykolno" means funny; "tse prykol", it's a joke, softens a tease.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	prykol	prykol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	prykolno	prykolno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
16	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
19	tse	tse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	prykol	prykol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	softens	soften	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tease	tease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mean** | present | prykol | a joke or a prank |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | prykolno |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | prykolno | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **soften** | present | prykol *not said here* | a tease |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tease=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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): R7-rel-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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