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title: You probably know a Ukrainian song already: "Carol of the Bells", th… — Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: You, rich year. A sentence of the lesson «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» of the ukra
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# Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** You, rich year · **What happens:** know, be, promise · **To what, where:** Ukrainian song, swallow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» 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 (You, rich year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:028-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 028-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Carol	Carol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Bells	bell	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	ding	ding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	ding	ding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	dong	dong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
22	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
28	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
29	ShchedrYk	ShchedrYk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
35	about	about	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | You | a Ukrainian song |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the Ukrainian song |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | a rich year | a swallow *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent swallow=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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