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title: The golden rule for a guest is the little word vy: kids say vy, the… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" · tree and pragmatics
description: The golden rule for a guest is the little word vy: kids say vy, the polite «you», to the friend's mum, dad, granny and teachers, and keep ty for friends. Who acts: golden rule, kids, you. 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 2

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The golden rule for a guest is the little word vy: kids say vy, the polite «you», to the friend's mum, dad, granny and teachers, and keep ty for friends.

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**Who acts:** golden rule, kids, you · **What happens:** be, say, », keep · **To what, where:** word vy, vy, mum, ty · **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 (golden rule, kids, you), 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:2
# text = The golden rule for a guest is the little word vy: kids say vy, the polite «you», to the friend's mum, dad, granny and teachers, and keep ty for friends.
# 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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	vy	vy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	vy	vy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
18	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	»	»	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:parataxis
37	ty	ty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 a** | present | the golden rule for a guest | word vy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | kids | vy | the friend's mum and dad and granny and teachers |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vy=Topic to mum=Recipient |
| 3 | **»** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | kids *not said here* | ty |  |  |  | for friends | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ty=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:2`.

**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 ×6, 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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