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title: "Velykden" means Easter, literally "the Great Day"; families take ba… — Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "Velykden" means Easter, literally "the Great Day"; families take baskets to church, and its date often differs from Easter in England. Who acts: Velykden, families, date. A sentence of the lesson «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays, sentence 10

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"Velykden" means Easter, literally "the Great Day"; families take baskets to church, and its date often differs from Easter in England.

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**Who acts:** Velykden, families, date · **What happens:** mean, take, differ · **To what, where:** Easter, baskets, church

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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 (Velykden, families, date), 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:10
# text = "Velykden" means Easter, literally "the Great Day"; families take baskets to church, and its date often differs from Easter in England.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Velykden	Velykden	PROPN	NNP	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	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Great	Great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	differs	differ	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Velykden | Easter |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent easter=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | present | families | baskets |  | church |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to church=Destination |
| 3 | **differ** | present | church's date |  |  |  |  | in England; from Easter; often *property* | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from easter=Co-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 ×1, 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.

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