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title: Ukrainian names change shape like clothes: one boy can be Oleksandr… — I don't understand — and what's your name? · tree and pragmatics
description: Ukrainian names change shape like clothes: one boy can be Oleksandr at school, Sashko with friends and Sashunya to his granny, and he is the same boy every time. Who acts: kid. A sentence of the lesson «I don't understand — and what's your name?» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary scho
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# I don't understand — and what's your name?, sentence 3

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Ukrainian names change shape like clothes: one boy can be Oleksandr at school, Sashko with friends and Sashunya to his granny, and he is the same boy every time.

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**Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Oleksandr, school, same boy

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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 (kid), 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:3
# text = Ukrainian names change shape like clothes: one boy can be Oleksandr at school, Sashko with friends and Sashunya to his granny, and he is the same boy every time.
# 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 ×2
1	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	Oleksandr	Oleksandr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Sashunya	Sashunya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 a** | can |  | Oleksandr |  | school |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | kid | the same boy |  |  | time |  | tree rules |

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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:3`.

**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 ×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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