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title: НІ is ni, no; an English reader may misread it as «hi», and ВИ is vy… — Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzz… · tree and pragmatics
description: НІ is ni, no; an English reader may misread it as «hi», and ВИ is vy, the polite you, not «BI». Who acts: НІ, English reader, ВИ. 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 th
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# Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 10

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НІ is ni, no; an English reader may misread it as «hi», and ВИ is vy, the polite you, not «BI».

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**Who acts:** НІ, English reader, ВИ · **What happens:** be, misread · **To what, where:** ni, СІМ

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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 (НІ, English reader, ВИ), 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:10
# text = НІ is ni, no; an English reader may misread it as «hi», and ВИ is vy, the polite you, not «BI».
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	НІ	НІ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	ni	no	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
5	no	no	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	misread	misread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hi	hi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	ВИ	ВИ	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	vy	vy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	appos	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	BI	bi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | НІ | ni and no |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **misread** | may | a English reader | СІМ *= сім* |  |  |  | as hi | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | ВИ |  |  |  |  | vy *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:031-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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

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