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title: yak teBE zvut? means what's your name?, to a kid; literally it is «h… — I don't understand — and what's your name? · tree and pragmatics
description: yak teBE zvut? means what's your name?, to a kid; literally it is «how do they call you?». Who acts: you, zvut, friends. 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 every 
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# I don't understand — and what's your name?, sentence 9

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yak teBE zvut? means what's your name?, to a kid; literally it is «how do they call you?».

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**Who acts:** you, zvut, friends · **What happens:** yak, mean, be · **To what, where:** name · **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 (you, zvut, friends), 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:9
# text = yak teBE zvut? means what's your name?, to a kid; literally it is «how do they call you?».
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	yak	yak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	teBE	teBE	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	zvut	zvut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | zvut |  |  |  |  | to a kid | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to kid=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | your name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present · do-support | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | call, literally *property* | 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:9`.

**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 ×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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