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title: Taking things without asking looks rude to Ukrainian grannies. — Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking things without asking looks rude to Ukrainian grannies. Who acts: Taking. A sentence of the lesson «Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the polite guest» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the polite guest, sentence 12

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Taking things without asking looks rude to Ukrainian grannies.

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**Who acts:** Taking · **What happens:** take, ask, look · **To what, where:** things

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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 (Taking), 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:12
# text = Taking things without asking looks rude to Ukrainian grannies.
# 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	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	grannies	granny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | present | Taking |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:ukrainian-street:029-vyshyvanka-midsummer-st-nicholas-polite-guest.lesson:12`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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