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title: "mozhna vzyaty?" means "may I take it?", asked before touching a toy… — Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "mozhna vzyaty?" means "may I take it?", asked before touching a toy, a book or a sweet from the bowl; the answer is "bery!", take it! Who acts: mozhna vzyaty, adults, answer. A sentence of the lesson «Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the polite guest» of the ukrainian street course of M
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# Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the polite guest, sentence 11

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"mozhna vzyaty?" means "may I take it?", asked before touching a toy, a book or a sweet from the bowl; the answer is "bery!", take it!

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**Who acts:** mozhna vzyaty, adults, answer · **What happens:** mean, take, ask, touch, be · **To what, where:** zdorOv'ya, toy, bery · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the polite guest» 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 (mozhna vzyaty, adults, answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:029-vyshyvanka-midsummer-st-nicholas-polite-guest.lesson:11
# text = "mozhna vzyaty?" means "may I take it?", asked before touching a toy, a book or a sweet from the bowl; the answer is "bery!", take it!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 029-vyshyvanka-midsummer-st-nicholas-polite-guest.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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	mozhna	mozhna	X	FW	_	3	flat:foreign	_	_
3	vzyaty	vzyaty	X	FW	_	6	nsubj	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	bery	bery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **mean** | present | mozhna vzyaty |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | may | adults *= adult* | zdorOv'ya |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | mozhna vzyaty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **touch** | gerund | mozhna vzyaty *not said here* | a toy and a book |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme toy=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the answer | bery |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive | mozhna vzyaty *not said here* | zdorOv'ya |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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): no change. **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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