--- title: vy is the polite «you» to grown-ups; saying ty to the friend's grann… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" · tree and pragmatics description: vy is the polite «you» to grown-ups; saying ty to the friend's granny is cheeky, and even where kids say ty to their own mum, a guest uses vy. Who acts: vy, ty, saying, kids. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vy, ty, saying, 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:12 # text = vy is the polite «you» to grown-ups; saying ty to the friend's granny is cheeky, and even where kids say ty to their own mum, a guest uses vy. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 vy vy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 polite polite NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 appos _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 grown grown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 14 ty ty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 cheeky cheeky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 24 even even ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 26 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 28 ty ty NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 37 vy vy NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | vy | the polite | | | | to grown ups | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | ty | | the friend's granny | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to granny=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | saying | | | | | cheeky *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | kids | ty | kids's own mum | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ty=Topic to mum=Recipient | | 5 | **use** | present | a guest | vy | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vy=Patient | 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. **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:12`. **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, 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. 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