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title: Some letters are old friends: А, О, М, Т and К sound just as they lo… — Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzz… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some letters are old friends: А, О, М, Т and К sound just as they look. Who acts: letters, А. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 1

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Some letters are old friends: А, О, М, Т and К sound just as they look.

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**Who acts:** letters, А · **What happens:** be, sound, look · **To what, where:** old friends

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★» 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 (letters, А), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:031-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers.lesson:1
# text = Some letters are old friends: А, О, М, Т and К sound just as they look.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 031-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers.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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	А	А	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	О	О	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	М	М	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Т	Т	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	К	К	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | some letters | old friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sound** | present | А and О and М and Т and К |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** | present | letters *= letter* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:031-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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