--- title: maLYuk and malEcha mean little one or the little ones; adults use th… — Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: adults, kids. 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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 (adults, kids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:007-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight.lesson:7 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ukrainian-street # lesson = 007-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 maLYuk maLYuk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 malEcha malEcha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Number=Plur 4 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nmod _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 conj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 28 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 xcomp _ _ 30 maLYuk maLYuk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | | little one or the little ones | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | | 2 | **use** | present | adults | maLYuk | | | | about small children | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | kids of nine | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **call** *not said to happen* | gerund · passive | kids of nine *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | 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:007-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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