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title: MAma means mum; jokes about someone's mum can upset people, so they… — How old are you, where from, and meet the family · tree and pragmatics
description: MAma means mum; jokes about someone's mum can upset people, so they are best avoided. Who acts: MAma, jokes. A sentence of the lesson «How old are you, where from, and meet the family» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# How old are you, where from, and meet the family, sentence 12

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MAma means mum; jokes about someone's mum can upset people, so they are best avoided.

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**Who acts:** MAma, jokes · **What happens:** mean, upset, avoid · **To what, where:** mum, people, jokes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How old are you, where from, and meet the family» 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 (MAma, jokes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:005-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family.lesson:12
# text = MAma means mum; jokes about someone's mum can upset people, so they are best avoided.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 005-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	MAma	mama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	upset	upset	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
19	.	.	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 | MAma | mum |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Topic |
| 2 | **upset** | can | jokes about someone's mum | people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 3 | **avoid** | present · passive |  | jokes *= joke* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location |

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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:005-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family.lesson:12`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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