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title: brat means brother, as in tse miy brat, that's my brother; between b… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" · tree and pragmatics
description: brat means brother, as in tse miy brat, that's my brother; between boys bratan or brO means bro. Who acts: brat, that, bratan. 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 pragmatics
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# Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy", sentence 4

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brat means brother, as in tse miy brat, that's my brother; between boys bratan or brO means bro.

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**Who acts:** brat, that, bratan · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** brother, bro

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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 (brat, that, bratan), 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:4
# text = brat means brother, as in tse miy brat, that's my brother; between boys bratan or brO means bro.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	brat	brat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	tse	tse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	miy	miy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	brat	brat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj
18	bratan	bratan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	brO	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	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 | brat | brother |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | my brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | bratan or brO | bro |  |  |  | between boys | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=Topic |

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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:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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