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title: Before a long trip the whole family sits down in silence for a momen… — Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners · tree and pragmatics
description: Before a long trip the whole family sits down in silence for a moment: "prysIdmo na dorIzhku", let's sit before the road, an old custom for luck. Who acts: whole family, you, 's. A sentence of the lesson «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primar
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# Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners, sentence 3

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Before a long trip the whole family sits down in silence for a moment: "prysIdmo na dorIzhku", let's sit before the road, an old custom for luck.

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**Who acts:** whole family, you, 's · **What happens:** sit down, let, sit · **To what, where:** prysIdmo, silence, 's, road

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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 (whole family, you, 's), 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:3
# text = Before a long trip the whole family sits down in silence for a moment: "prysIdmo na dorIzhku", let's sit before the road, an old custom for luck.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	prysIdmo	prysIdmo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	obj	_	_
18	na	na	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	dorIzhku	dorIzhku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	's	us	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **sit down** | present | the whole family | prysIdmo |  | silence | before a long trip; moment | down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  | the road |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before road=Location |

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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:3`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/).

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