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title: A Ukrainian sim'yA (family) is often big and close: brat and sestrA,… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" · tree and pragmatics
description: A Ukrainian sim'yA (family) is often big and close: brat and sestrA, cousins who feel almost like brothers, aunties, uncles and godparents at every party. Who acts: Ukrainian sim'yA, cousins. A sentence of the lesson «Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"» of the ukrainian street course of 
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# Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy", sentence 0

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A Ukrainian sim'yA (family) is often big and close: brat and sestrA, cousins who feel almost like brothers, aunties, uncles and godparents at every party.

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**Who acts:** Ukrainian sim'yA, cousins · **What happens:** be, feel · **To what, where:** party

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"» 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 (Ukrainian sim'yA, cousins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:006-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy.lesson:0
# text = A Ukrainian sim'yA (family) is often big and close: brat and sestrA, cousins who feel almost like brothers, aunties, uncles and godparents at every party.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 006-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	sim'yA	sim'ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
13	brat	brat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sestrA	sestra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	aunties	auntie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	uncles	uncle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	godparents	godparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a Ukrainian sim'yA |  |  |  |  | big, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a Ukrainian sim'yA *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | present | cousins |  |  | every party |  | like brothers and aunties and uncles and godparents | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like brother=Theme |

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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:006-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy.lesson:0`.

**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, R7-rel-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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