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title: vybaCHte means sorry or excuse me to adults and strangers, and it is… — Please, thank you, sorry, okay · tree and pragmatics
description: vybaCHte means sorry or excuse me to adults and strangers, and it is also how you start a question to a stranger. Who acts: vybaCHte, chai. A sentence of the lesson «Please, thank you, sorry, okay» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Please, thank you, sorry, okay, sentence 10

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vybaCHte means sorry or excuse me to adults and strangers, and it is also how you start a question to a stranger.

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**Who acts:** vybaCHte, chai · **What happens:** mean, excuse, be · **To what, where:** me

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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 (vybaCHte, chai), 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:10
# text = vybaCHte means sorry or excuse me to adults and strangers, and it is also how you start a question to a stranger.
# 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	vybaCHte	vybaCHte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	excuse	excuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | vybaCHte |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **excuse** | infinitive | vybaCHte *not said here* | me |  |  |  | to adults and strangers | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | chai |  |  |  |  | to a stranger; start *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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**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:003-please-thank-you-sorry-okay.lesson:10`.

**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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