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title: shcho? means what?; it is fine with friends, but to adults the polit… — I don't understand — and what's your name? · tree and pragmatics
description: shcho? means what?; it is fine with friends, but to adults the politer pardon? is pereproshUyu?, and a bare shcho? to a granny can sound blunt. Who acts: raz, politer pardon. A sentence of the lesson «I don't understand — and what's your name?» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school
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# I don't understand — and what's your name?, sentence 8

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shcho? means what?; it is fine with friends, but to adults the politer pardon? is pereproshUyu?, and a bare shcho? to a granny can sound blunt.

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**Who acts:** raz, politer pardon · **What happens:** mean, be, sound · **To what, where:** pereproshUyu

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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 (raz, politer pardon), 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:8
# text = shcho? means what?; it is fine with friends, but to adults the politer pardon? is pereproshUyu?, and a bare shcho? to a granny can sound blunt.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	shcho	shcho	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	politer	polite	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	pereproshUyu	pereproshUyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
26	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shcho	shcho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	blunt	blunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | raz |  |  |  |  | with friends; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the politer pardon | pereproshUyu |  |  |  | to adults | tree rules |
| 4 | **sound** | can |  |  |  |  |  | to a granny; blunt *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to granny=Experiencer |

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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 ×1, R6-punct-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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