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title: zvychAino means of course, a slightly formal yes to a request from a… — I don't understand — and what's your name? · tree and pragmatics
description: zvychAino means of course, a slightly formal yes to a request from an adult; again the «chai» in it is not tea. Who acts: zvychAino. 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 pragmati
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# I don't understand — and what's your name?, sentence 4

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zvychAino means of course, a slightly formal yes to a request from an adult; again the «chai» in it is not tea.

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**Who acts:** zvychAino · **What happens:** mean, not be · **To what, where:** tea

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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 (zvychAino), 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:4
# text = zvychAino means of course, a slightly formal yes to a request from an adult; again the «chai» in it is not tea.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	zvychAino	zvychAino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	2	advmod	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	fixed	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
7	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod
9	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	12	discourse	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	chai	chai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
27	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | zvychAino |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | zvychAino *not said here* |  |  | tea |  |  | 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:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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