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title: In the playground a new kid asks yak teBE zvut? — literally «how do… — I don't understand — and what's your name? · tree and pragmatics
description: In the playground a new kid asks yak teBE zvut? — literally «how do they call you?» — and you answer MEne zvut and your name. Who acts: new kid, ups, you, your. 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 depe
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# I don't understand — and what's your name?, sentence 2

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In the playground a new kid asks yak teBE zvut? — literally «how do they call you?» — and you answer MEne zvut and your name.

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**Who acts:** new kid, ups, you, your · **What happens:** ask, call, answer, name · **To what, where:** teBE zvut, playground, MEne zvut · **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 (new kid, ups, you, 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:2
# text = In the playground a new kid asks yak teBE zvut? — literally «how do they call you?» — and you answer MEne zvut and your name.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	yak	yak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	teBE	tebe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	zvut	zvut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
13	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	MEne	MEne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	zvut	zvut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a new kid |  | teBE zvut | the playground |  | literally *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent zvut=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call** *in a quote* | present · do-support | ups *= up* |  | teBE zvut *= zvut* |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | you | MEne zvut and your name |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent zvut=Eventuality |
| 4 | **name** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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