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title: The busiest little phrase in Ukrainian is BUD laska: it means please… — Please, thank you, sorry, okay · tree and pragmatics
description: The busiest little phrase in Ukrainian is BUD laska: it means please, but also «you're welcome» and «here you are». Who acts: busiest little phrase, phrase, you. A sentence of the lesson «Please, thank you, sorry, okay» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Please, thank you, sorry, okay, sentence 0

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The busiest little phrase in Ukrainian is BUD laska: it means please, but also «you're welcome» and «here you are».

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**Who acts:** busiest little phrase, phrase, you · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** BUD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Please, thank you, sorry, okay» 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 (busiest little phrase, phrase, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:003-please-thank-you-sorry-okay.lesson:0
# text = The busiest little phrase in Ukrainian is BUD laska: it means please, but also «you're welcome» and «here you are».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 003-please-thank-you-sorry-okay.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	BUD	BUD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	laska	laska	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the busiest little phrase in Ukrainian | BUD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | phrase |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | welcome *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |

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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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