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title: On birthdays you say "z dnem narodzhennya!" and the family may sing… — Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: you, family, families. A sentence of the lesson «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and bir
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# Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays, sentence 4

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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.

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**Who acts:** you, family, families · **What happens:** say, sing, wear, wave · **To what, where:** dnem narodzhennya, birthdays, mnohaya lita, embroidered shirts, blue flag · **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, family, 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:4
# text = 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.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dnem	dnem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	narodzhennya	narodzhennya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
17	mnohaya	mnohaya	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lita	lita	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
27	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
30	Nezalezhnosti	Nezalezhnosti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
32	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	embroidered	embroider	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	wave	wave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
39	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	_
43	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
44	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | dnem narodzhennya |  | birthdays |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent narodzhennya=Topic |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | may | the family | mnohaya lita |  |  | year |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lita=Theme |
| 3 | **wear** | present | families | embroidered shirts |  |  | august |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme |
| 4 | **wave** | present | families *not said here* | the blue flag |  |  |  |  | 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, 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.

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