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title: Some letters do the work of two English ones: Ш is sh, Ч is ch, Я is… — Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzz… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some letters do the work of two English ones: Ш is sh, Ч is ch, Я is ya and Ю is yu — so БАБУСЯ has six letters, while babusya in English letters has seven. Who acts: letters, Ш, Ч, Я. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★» of the ukrainian street course o
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# Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 3

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Some letters do the work of two English ones: Ш is sh, Ч is ch, Я is ya and Ю is yu — so БАБУСЯ has six letters, while babusya in English letters has seven.

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**Who acts:** letters, Ш, Ч, Я, БАБУСЯ, babusya · **What happens:** do, be, have, work · **To what, where:** work, ya, six letters, seven

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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, Ш, Ч, Я), 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:3
# text = Some letters do the work of two English ones: Ш is sh, Ч is ch, Я is ya and Ю is yu — so БАБУСЯ has six letters, while babusya in English letters has seven.
# 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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Ш	Ш	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	sh	sh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Ч	Ч	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	ch	ch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=17:punct
19	Я	Я	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	ya	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	Ю	Ю	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	yu	yu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	conj	_	_
26	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	БАБУСЯ	БАБУСЯ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	babusya	BAbusya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
39	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	obj	_	_
40	.	.	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 | **do** | present | some letters | the work of two English ones |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | Ш |  |  |  |  | sh *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Ч |  |  |  |  | ch *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Я | ya |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | БАБУСЯ | six letters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | babusya in English letters | seven |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient |
| 7 | **work** |  | two English ones |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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

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