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title: "mnohaya lita", "many years", is a song sung at birthdays and celebr… — Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "mnohaya lita", "many years", is a song sung at birthdays and celebrations, instead of or as well as "Happy birthday". Who acts: mnohaya lita. A sentence of the lesson «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays, sentence 15

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"mnohaya lita", "many years", is a song sung at birthdays and celebrations, instead of or as well as "Happy birthday".

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**Who acts:** mnohaya lita · **What happens:** be, sing · **To what, where:** song, birthdays

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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 (mnohaya lita), 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:15
# text = "mnohaya lita", "many years", is a song sung at birthdays and celebrations, instead of or as well as "Happy birthday".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	mnohaya	mnohaya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lita	lita	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	celebrations	celebration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is a** | present | mnohaya lita | a song |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  | a song *not said here* |  | birthdays and celebrations |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at birthday=Location |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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