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title: yak vas zvut? is the polite what's your name?, but children rarely a… — I don't understand — and what's your name? · tree and pragmatics
description: yak vas zvut? is the polite what's your name?, but children rarely ask grown-ups this; they call adults by first name and father's name, or TItko, auntie. Who acts: yak, name, children, your. A sentence of the lesson «I don't understand — and what's your name?» of the ukrainian street course of Mova
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# I don't understand — and what's your name?, sentence 11

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yak vas zvut? is the polite what's your name?, but children rarely ask grown-ups this; they call adults by first name and father's name, or TItko, auntie.

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**Who acts:** yak, name, children, your, father · **What happens:** be, ask, call, name · **To what, where:** this, grown ups, adults · **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 (yak, name, children, your), 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:11
# text = yak vas zvut? is the polite what's your name?, but children rarely ask grown-ups this; they call adults by first name and father's name, or TItko, auntie.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	yak	yak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	vas	vas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	zvut	zvut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	ccomp	_	_
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
18	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	iobj	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
25	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	TItko	TItko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | yak |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | your name |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | children | this | grown ups |  |  | rarely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | present | children *= child* |  | adults |  |  | by first name and father's name or TItko | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 5 | **name** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **name** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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