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description: Some Cyrillic letters look like English ones but stand for other sounds: В is v, Н is n, Р is r, С is s and Х is kh. Who acts: Cyrillic letters, В, Н, Р. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 8

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Some Cyrillic letters look like English ones but stand for other sounds: В is v, Н is n, Р is r, С is s and Х is kh.

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**Who acts:** Cyrillic letters, В, Н, Р, С, Х · **What happens:** look, stand, be

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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 (Cyrillic letters, В, Н, Р), 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:8
# text = Some Cyrillic letters look like English ones but stand for other sounds: В is v, Н is n, Р is r, С is s and Х is kh.
# 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 ×3
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	Cyrillic	cyrillic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
14	В	В	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	v	v	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
18	Н	Н	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	n	n	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct
22	Р	Р	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	r	r	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=24:punct
26	С	С	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	s	s	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	Х	Х	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	kh	kh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **look** | present | some Cyrillic letters |  |  |  |  | like English ones | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | present | some Cyrillic letters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for other sounds | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for sound=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | present | В |  |  |  |  | v *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | Н |  |  |  |  | n *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | Р |  |  |  |  | r *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | С |  |  |  |  | s *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | Х |  |  |  |  | kh *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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**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 ×3. **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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