--- title: TItka or TItochka means auntie, and kids also say TItko politely to… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" · tree and pragmatics description: TItka or TItochka means auntie, and kids also say TItko politely to women friends of the family; calling a strange woman TItka in a shop can sound rude. Who acts: TItka, kids, calling. 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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 (TItka, kids, calling), 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:7 # text = TItka or TItochka means auntie, and kids also say TItko politely to women friends of the family; calling a strange woman TItka in a shop can sound rude. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 TItka TItka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 TItochka TItochka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 auntie auntie NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 also also ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 TItko TItko PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 politely politely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 compound _ _ 15 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 TItka TItka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 30 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | TItka or TItochka | auntie | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent auntie=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | kids | TItko | women friends of the family | | | politely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent titko=Topic to friend=Recipient | | 3 | **call** | gerund | | | a strange woman | a shop | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | | 4 | **sound** | can | calling | | | | | rude *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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): R8-pos-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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