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title: Grown-ups are delighted when you try, and they will simply say it ag… — I don't understand — and what's your name? · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups are delighted when you try, and they will simply say it again slower or switch to English. Who acts: Grown ups, you, ups. A sentence of the lesson «I don't understand — and what's your name?» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# I don't understand — and what's your name?, sentence 1

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Grown-ups are delighted when you try, and they will simply say it again slower or switch to English.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, you, ups · **What happens:** be, try, say, switch · **To what, where:** sentence, English · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «I don't understand — and what's your name?» 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 (Grown ups, you, ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:004-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name.lesson:1
# text = Grown-ups are delighted when you try, and they will simply say it again slower or switch to English.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 004-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	slower	slow	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Grown ups |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | ups *= up* | sentence |  |  | again | simply, slow *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **switch** | infinitive | ups *= up* *not said here* |  | English |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to english=Result |

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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:004-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name.lesson:1`.

**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): 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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