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title: Calling a friend by his full name, like Oleksandr, can sound as if h… — I don't understand — and what's your name? · tree and pragmatics
description: Calling a friend by his full name, like Oleksandr, can sound as if his mum is cross with him. Who acts: Calling, mum, OlEnka. 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 pragmatics of e
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# I don't understand — and what's your name?, sentence 16

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Calling a friend by his full name, like Oleksandr, can sound as if his mum is cross with him.

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**Who acts:** Calling, mum, OlEnka · **What happens:** call, sound, be, name · **To what, where:** friend, cross · **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 (Calling, mum, OlEnka), 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:16
# text = Calling a friend by his full name, like Oleksandr, can sound as if his mum is cross with him.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Oleksandr	Oleksandr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **call** | gerund |  |  | a friend |  |  | by OlEnka's full name; like Oleksandr | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
| 2 | **sound** | can | Calling |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | OlEnka's mum | cross |  |  |  | with OlEnka | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | OlEnka |  |  |  |  |  | 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:004-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name.lesson:16`.

**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): R8-pos-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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