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title: meni DEsyat means I'm ten; DEsyat only sounds a bit like «death-yach… — How old are you, where from, and meet the family · tree and pragmatics
description: meni DEsyat means I'm ten; DEsyat only sounds a bit like «death-yacht» — it is just the number ten. Who acts: meni DEsyat, I, DEsyat, yacht. 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 an
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# How old are you, where from, and meet the family, sentence 6

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meni DEsyat means I'm ten; DEsyat only sounds a bit like «death-yacht» — it is just the number ten.

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**Who acts:** meni DEsyat, I, DEsyat, yacht · **What happens:** mean, be, sound · **To what, where:** ten, bit, number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (meni DEsyat, I, DEsyat, yacht), 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:6
# text = meni DEsyat means I'm ten; DEsyat only sounds a bit like «death-yacht» — it is just the number ten.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	meni	meni	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
2	DEsyat	DEsyat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	ccomp	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	DEsyat	DEsyat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	yacht	yacht	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
25	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | meni DEsyat |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | ten |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sound** | present | DEsyat | a bit |  |  |  | like death yacht | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | yacht | the number |  |  |  |  | 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:005-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family.lesson:6`.

**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, R7-rel-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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