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title: Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: You probably know a Ukrainian song already: "Carol of the Bells", the ding-ding-dong Christmas tune, is the Ukrain
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# Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays

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Lesson 28 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/0/) — You probably know a Ukrainian song already: "Carol of the Bells", the ding-ding-dong Christmas tune, is the Ukrainian song ShchedrYk, a New Year song about a swallow promising a rich year.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/1/) — Novyi rik, New Year, is a huge family party around the yalYnka, the tree, and everyone shouts "z NOvym rOkom!" — Happy New Year!
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/2/) — In spring comes Velykden, "the Great Day", Easter, with the greeting "KhrystOs voskrEs!" and the fixed answer "VoIstynu voskrEs!".
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/4/) — On birthdays you say "z dnem narodzhennya!" and the family may sing "mnohaya lita", many years; and on 24 August, Den Nezalezhnosti, families wear embroidered shirts and wave the blue-and-yellow flag.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/5/) — "ShchedrYk" is a Ukrainian New Year song arranged by the composer Mykola Leontovych; its tune is known in English as "Carol of the Bells".
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/6/) — The words of ShchedrYk tell of a swallow flying in to promise the family a rich and happy year.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/7/) — "Novyi rik" means New Year, a huge family celebration with a tree.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/9/) — "yalYnka" means the Christmas or New Year tree.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/10/) — "Velykden" means Easter, literally "the Great Day"; families take baskets to church, and its date often differs from Easter in England.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/11/) — "KhrystOs voskrEs!" means "Christ is risen!", the Easter greeting, and the fixed answer is "VoIstynu voskrEs!", "He is risen indeed!".
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/14/) — "z dnem narodzhennya!" means "Happy birthday!", and the answer is "DYAkuyu!".
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/15/) — "mnohaya lita", "many years", is a song sung at birthdays and celebrations, instead of or as well as "Happy birthday".
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/16/) — "Den Nezalezhnosti" means Independence Day, on 24 August, marking Ukraine's independence in 1991; families wear vyshyvanky, embroidered shirts, and wave blue-and-yellow flags.

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