--- title: "mat" or "matyuky" are the strong swear words; older kids and some a… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve · tree and pragmatics description: "mat" or "matyuky" are the strong swear words; older kids and some adults use them, they shock grannies, and they are never said at a friend's home. Who acts: mat, older kids, kids. A sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/) / [Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/) / 9 # Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 9 "mat" or "matyuky" are the strong swear words; older kids and some adults use them, they shock grannies, and they are never said at a friend's home. **Who acts:** mat, older kids, kids · **What happens:** be, use, shock, not say · **To what, where:** strong swear words, mat, grannies, kids, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (mat, older kids, kids), 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:9 # text = "mat" or "matyuky" are the strong swear words; older kids and some adults use them, they shock grannies, and they are never said at a friend's home. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 mat mat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 matyuky matyuky NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 swear swear NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 19 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 shock shock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 grannies granny NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 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 30 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | mat or matyuky | the strong swear words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | older kids and some adults | mat | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **shock** | present | kids *= kid* | grannies | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus granny=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | kids *= kid* | | a friend's home | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | 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. **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:9`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/8/) - next →: [Only joking! 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