--- title: Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Counting starts like a game of hide-and-seek: odYn, dva, try, chotyRY, p'yat, shIst, sim, vIsim. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/) / Calling Mum and Granny; counting one t… # Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight Lesson 7 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 12 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/). - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/2/) — Counting starts like a game of hide-and-seek: odYn, dva, try, chotyRY, p'yat, shIst, sim, vIsim. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/4/) — MAmo! is the calling form of MAma: what you shout to call Mum. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/5/) — TAtu! is the calling form of TAto: what you shout to call Dad. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/6/) — BAbusyu! is the calling form of BAbusya: what you shout to call Granny; this special form is called the vocative. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/7/) — maLYuk and malEcha mean little one or the little ones; adults use them about small children, and kids of nine or ten don't like being called maLYuk. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/8/) — odYn means one; when counting off before a race people say raz instead: raz, dva, try! - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/9/) — dva means two; before some words, such as DIvchyny (girls), it becomes dvi. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/10/) — try means three; it is written like English «try» but said «trih». - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/11/) — chotyRY means four, with the stress at the end: cho-tih-RIH. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/12/) — p'yat means five, and daI p'yat! means give me five, a high five. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/13/) — shIst means six, and it is easy to mix up with sim when said fast. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/14/) — sim means seven and sounds like the English word «seem». - ← previous: [Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/) - next →: [Counting on: nine to eighty](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty/) - ↑ back to [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/)