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title: Many families also use TItko (auntie) and DYAdko (uncle) for close f… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" · tree and pragmatics
description: Many families also use TItko (auntie) and DYAdko (uncle) for close family friends, the way some English kids say «Auntie Sue» to Mum's best friend. Who acts: Many families, English kids. A sentence of the lesson «Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"» of the ukrainian street course of Mova'
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# Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy", sentence 1

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Many families also use TItko (auntie) and DYAdko (uncle) for close family friends, the way some English kids say «Auntie Sue» to Mum's best friend.

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**Who acts:** Many families, English kids · **What happens:** use, say · **To what, where:** TItko, Auntie, best friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many families, English kids), 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:1
# text = Many families also use TItko (auntie) and DYAdko (uncle) for close family friends, the way some English kids say «Auntie Sue» to Mum's best friend.
# 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): no change
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	TItko	TItko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	DYAdko	DYAdko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	Sue	Sue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **use** | present | Many families | TItko and DYAdko |  |  |  | for close family friends; the way *obl:unmarked* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent titko=Theme for friend=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some English kids | Auntie | Mum's best friend |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent auntie=Topic to friend=Recipient |

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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:1`.

**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): no change. **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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