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title: sestrA means sister, and sestrychka is a loving word for a little si… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" · tree and pragmatics
description: sestrA means sister, and sestrychka is a loving word for a little sister. Who acts: sestrA, sestrychka. 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 of every clause.
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# Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy", sentence 5

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sestrA means sister, and sestrychka is a loving word for a little sister.

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**Who acts:** sestrA, sestrychka · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** sister, loving 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 (sestrA, sestrychka), 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:5
# text = sestrA means sister, and sestrychka is a loving word for a little sister.
# 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	sestrA	sestra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	sestrychka	sestrychka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | sestrA | sister |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | sestrychka | a loving word |  |  |  | for a little sister | 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): 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.

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