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title: How old are you, where from, and meet the family — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «How old are you, where from, and meet the family», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Kids also ask zvidky ty? (where are you from?), de ty zhyvEsh? (where do you live?) and ty z YakOho klAsu? (whic
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# How old are you, where from, and meet the family

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Lesson 5 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/).

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/1/) — Kids also ask zvidky ty? (where are you from?), de ty zhyvEsh? (where do you live?) and ty z YakOho klAsu? (which class are you in?).
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/2/) — Then Sashko brings you into the kitchen: tse miy druh — this is my friend — and you meet MAma, TAto, BAbusya and diDUS.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/3/) — Watch the little words: druh is a friend who is a boy, podRUha a friend who is a girl, and neither means a boyfriend or girlfriend among kids.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/4/) — SKILky tobI rokIv? means how old are you?, literally «how many years to you?».
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/5/) — meni DEvyat rokIv means I am nine years old; rokIv (years) follows 5 and up, while after 2 to 4 it is roky.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/6/) — meni DEsyat means I'm ten; DEsyat only sounds a bit like «death-yacht» — it is just the number ten.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/7/) — de ty zhyvEsh? means where do you live?, and an answer is ya zhyvU tut, I live here.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/8/) — zvidky ty? means where are you from?, and an answer is ya z AnHliyi, I'm from England.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/9/) — ty z YakOho klAsu? means which class are you in?; klAs is the year group, and an answer is ya v chetvErtomu, in fourth.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/12/) — MAma means mum; jokes about someone's mum can upset people, so they are best avoided.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/13/) — TAto means dad; some families say pApa, but TAto is the most Ukrainian word.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/14/) — BAbusya is a loving word for granny; BAba alone about a strange woman can sound rude.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/15/) — diDUS is a loving word for grandad, DId is shorter, and DId MorOz is Grandfather Frost, an old New Year figure.

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