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title: Ukrainian words change their ends to tell you things English says wi… — Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Ukrainian words change their ends to tell you things English says with whole extra words, and a sharp puzzler can read a whole scene from one ending. Who acts: Ukrainian words, English, sharp puzzler. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★» of the ukrainian street course of
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# Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★, sentence 0

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Ukrainian words change their ends to tell you things English says with whole extra words, and a sharp puzzler can read a whole scene from one ending.

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**Who acts:** Ukrainian words, English, sharp puzzler · **What happens:** change, tell, say, read · **To what, where:** ends, things, you, whole scene, one ending · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★» 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 (Ukrainian words, English, sharp puzzler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:032-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms.lesson:0
# text = Ukrainian words change their ends to tell you things English says with whole extra words, and a sharp puzzler can read a whole scene from one ending.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 032-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms.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): no change
1	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	puzzler	puzzler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **change** | present | Ukrainian words | words's ends |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Ukrainian words *not said here* | things | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | English | things *not said here* |  |  |  | with whole extra words | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent thing=Theme with word=Manner |
| 4 | **read** | can | a sharp puzzler | a whole scene |  | one ending |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent scene=Topic from ending=Source |

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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:032-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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