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title: Teachers and older adults are called by first name plus father's nam… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" · tree and pragmatics
description: Teachers and older adults are called by first name plus father's name — if a teacher is Olena and her father was Petro, she is Olena PetrIvna, and getting that ending right sounds very respectful. Who acts: first name, teacher, father, guest. A sentence of the lesson «Brothers, aunties, cousins and 
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# Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy", sentence 3

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Teachers and older adults are called by first name plus father's name — if a teacher is Olena and her father was Petro, she is Olena PetrIvna, and getting that ending right sounds very respectful.

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**Who acts:** first name, teacher, father, guest, getting · **What happens:** call, be, get, sound, name · **To what, where:** Teachers, Olena, Petro, Olena PetrIvna, ending · **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 (first name, teacher, father, guest), 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:3
# text = Teachers and older adults are called by first name plus father's name — if a teacher is Olena and her father was Petro, she is Olena PetrIvna, and getting that ending right sounds very respectful.
# 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	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	Olena	Olena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	Petro	Petro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	Olena	Olena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	PetrIvna	PetrIvna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	csubj	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	ending	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	right	right	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive | first name plus father's name | Teachers and older adults |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a teacher | Olena and Petro and Olena PetrIvna |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | guest's father | Petro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | guest | Olena PetrIvna |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | gerund |  | that ending |  |  |  | right *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus |
| 6 | **sound** | present | getting |  |  |  |  | respectful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **name** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:3`.

**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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