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title: yak teBE zvut? asks a kid's name; yak vas zvut? is the polite form. — Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: yak teBE zvut? asks a kid's name; yak vas zvut? is the polite form. Who acts: kid. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★, sentence 15

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yak teBE zvut? asks a kid's name; yak vas zvut? is the polite form.

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**Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** ask, be, name · **To what, where:** name, polite form

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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 (kid), 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:15
# text = yak teBE zvut? asks a kid's name; yak vas zvut? is the polite form.
# 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	yak	yak	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	teBE	teBE	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	zvut	zvut	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	obj	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
5	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	yak	yak	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	vas	vas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	zvut	zvut	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	conj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present |  | a kid's name |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the polite form |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | a kid |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:032-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms.lesson:15`.

**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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