---
title: "Den Svyatoho Mykolaya" means St Nicholas Day, now kept on 6 Decembe… — Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Svyatoho Mykolaya" means St Nicholas Day, now kept on 6 December in Ukraine; children find presents under the pillow, and in jest naughty ones get a twig. Who acts: Den, children, naughty ones. A sentence of the lesson «Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the polite guest» of the ukrai
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/29-vyshyvanka-midsummer-st-nicholas-polite-guest/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/) / [Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/29-vyshyvanka-midsummer-st-nicholas-polite-guest/) / 7

# Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the polite guest, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Den Svyatoho Mykolaya" means St Nicholas Day, now kept on 6 December in Ukraine; children find presents under the pillow, and in jest naughty ones get a twig.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Den, children, naughty ones · **What happens:** mean, keep, find, get · **To what, where:** St Nicholas, Ukraine, presents, pillow, jest

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Den, children, naughty ones), 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:7
# text = "Den Svyatoho Mykolaya" means St Nicholas Day, now kept on 6 December in Ukraine; children find presents under the pillow, and in jest naughty ones get a twig.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Svyatoho	Svyatoho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Mykolaya	Mykolaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
21	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:compound
29	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obl
31	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Den | St Nicholas |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nicholas=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** | participle |  | St Nicholas *not said here* |  | Ukraine | now; december |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in ukraine=Location |
| 3 | **find** | present | children | presents |  | the pillow |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Topic |
| 4 | **get** | present | naughty ones | jest |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twig=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:7`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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.

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

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/29-vyshyvanka-midsummer-st-nicholas-polite-guest/6/)
- next →: [Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/29-vyshyvanka-midsummer-st-nicholas-polite-guest/8/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/29-vyshyvanka-midsummer-st-nicholas-polite-guest/)

