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title: batkY means parents, as in de tvoyi batky? (where are your parents?)… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" · tree and pragmatics
description: batkY means parents, as in de tvoyi batky? (where are your parents?), while bAtko is a formal word for father. Who acts: batkY, bAtko. A sentence of the lesson «Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy", sentence 11

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batkY means parents, as in de tvoyi batky? (where are your parents?), while bAtko is a formal word for father.

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**Who acts:** batkY, bAtko · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** parents, formal word

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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 (batkY, bAtko), 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:11
# text = batkY means parents, as in de tvoyi batky? (where are your parents?), while bAtko is a formal word for father.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	batkY	batky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	advmod	_	_
8	tvoyi	tvoyi	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
9	batky	batky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	bAtko	batko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	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 | batkY | parents |  |  |  | tvoyi batky *obl* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | your parents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | bAtko | a formal word |  |  |  | for father | 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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**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, 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.

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