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title: "ne cherez porih" means "not across the threshold": many families st… — Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners · tree and pragmatics
description: "ne cherez porih" means "not across the threshold": many families still avoid handing things or shaking hands across a doorway, so you step inside first. Who acts: ne cherez porih, many families, you. A sentence of the lesson «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» of the ukrainian street c
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# Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners, sentence 11

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"ne cherez porih" means "not across the threshold": many families still avoid handing things or shaking hands across a doorway, so you step inside first.

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**Who acts:** ne cherez porih, many families, you · **What happens:** mean, avoid, hand, shake, step · **To what, where:** things, hands, doorway

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» 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 (ne cherez porih, many families, you), 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:11
# text = "ne cherez porih" means "not across the threshold": many families still avoid handing things or shaking hands across a doorway, so you step inside first.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	cherez	cherez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	porih	porih	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	avoid	avoid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
18	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	xcomp	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	step	step	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | ne cherez porih |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **avoid** | present | many families |  |  |  | still |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hand** | gerund | many families *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **shake** | gerund | many families *not said here* | hands |  | a doorway |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme across doorway=Trajectory |
| 5 | **step** | present | you |  |  |  |  | first, inside *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:030-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

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

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