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title: И is written y in English letters and sounds like a short «ih», whil… — Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzz… · tree and pragmatics
description: И is written y in English letters and sounds like a short «ih», while І is written i and sounds like «ee»: ТРИ is try (three), СІМ is sim (seven). Who acts: СІМ. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school
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# Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 9

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И is written y in English letters and sounds like a short «ih», while І is written i and sounds like «ee»: ТРИ is try (three), СІМ is sim (seven).

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**Who acts:** СІМ · **What happens:** write, sound, be · **To what, where:** И, English letters, І, three, sim

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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 (СІМ), 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:9
# text = И is written y in English letters and sounds like a short «ih», while І is written i and sounds like «ee»: ТРИ is try (three), СІМ is sim (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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	И	И	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	y	y	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
13	«	«	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	12	advmod	_	_
14	ih	ih	X	GW	_	13	goeswith	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	І	І	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
21	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	«	«	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
29	ТРИ	ТРИ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
33	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
36	СІМ	СІМ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	sim	sim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
40	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	appos	_	_
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **write** | present · passive |  | И |  | English letters |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient y=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like a short | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **write** | present · passive |  | І |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **sound** | present |  | three |  |  |  | like « ee  ТРИ | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | try *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | СІМ | sim |  |  |  |  | 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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