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title: DYAdko means uncle or a man friend of the family; DYAdya is more Rus… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" · tree and pragmatics
description: DYAdko means uncle or a man friend of the family; DYAdya is more Russian-sounding but common. Who acts: DYAdko, DYAdya. 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 eve
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# Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy", sentence 8

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DYAdko means uncle or a man friend of the family; DYAdya is more Russian-sounding but common.

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**Who acts:** DYAdko, DYAdya · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** uncle

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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 (DYAdko, DYAdya), 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:8
# text = DYAdko means uncle or a man friend of the family; DYAdya is more Russian-sounding but common.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	DYAdko	DYAdko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	DYAdya	DYAdya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
15	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	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 | DYAdko | uncle or a man friend of the family |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | DYAdya |  |  |  |  | sound *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | DYAdya *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:8`.

**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): 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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