--- title: "ne svystY v khati" means "don't whistle in the house"; the supersti… — Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners · tree and pragmatics description: "ne svystY v khati" means "don't whistle in the house"; the superstition says whistling indoors "whistles the money away". Who acts: svystY v khati, superstition. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (svystY v khati, superstition), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:030-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners.lesson:10 # text = "ne svystY v khati" means "don't whistle in the house"; the superstition says whistling indoors "whistles the money away". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ukrainian-street # lesson = 030-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 ne ne NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 svystY svysty NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 v v NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 khati khati NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 whistle whistle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 superstition superstition NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 20 whistling whistle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 nsubj _ _ 21 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 whistles whistle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | svystY v khati | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **whistle** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | in the house | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in house=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the superstition | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **whistle** | gerund | | | | | | indoors *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **whistle away** *in a quote* | present | | the money | | | | away *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic | 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. **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:030-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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