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title: "Den Nezalezhnosti" means Independence Day, on 24 August, marking Uk… — Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "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. Who acts: Den, Day, families. A sentence of the lesson «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» of the ukrainian str
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# Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays, sentence 16

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"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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**Who acts:** Den, Day, families · **What happens:** mean, mark, wear, embroider, wave · **To what, where:** Independence, 1991, vyshyvanky, blue flags

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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 (Den, Day, families), 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:16
# text = "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.
# 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	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Nezalezhnosti	Nezalezhnosti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
14	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	vyshyvanky	vyshyvanky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wave	wave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:amod
34	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Den | Independence |  |  | august |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Topic |
| 2 | **mark** | gerund | Day *not said here* | Ukraine's independence |  | 1991 |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent independence=Theme in 1991=Destination |
| 3 | **wear** | present | families | vyshyvanky |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent vyshyvanky=Source |
| 4 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wave** | present | Den *not said here* | blue flags |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient |

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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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