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title: Watch the little words: druh is a friend who is a boy, podRUha a fri… — How old are you, where from, and meet the family · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: you, druh, friend, podRUha. A sentence of the lesson «How old are you, where from, and meet the family» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's pr
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# How old are you, where from, and meet the family, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** you, druh, friend, podRUha, neither · **What happens:** watch, be, friend, mean · **To what, where:** little words, friend, boy, girl, boyfriend

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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 (you, druh, friend, podRUha), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	druh	druh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
15	podRUha	podRUha	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	nsubj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	among	among	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the little words |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | druh | a friend and a friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a friend and a friend | a boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **friend** |  | podRUha |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a friend | a girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present | neither | a boyfriend or girlfriend |  |  |  | among kids | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyfriend=Topic |

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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): 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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