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title: To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Before a race someone shouts «raz, dva, try — pishLY!», one, two, three — go!, and after the counting in hide-
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# To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour

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Lesson 9 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/).

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/1/) — Before a race someone shouts «raz, dva, try — pishLY!», one, two, three — go!, and after the counting in hide-and-seek the seeker calls ya shukAyu!, ready or not, I'm coming.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/2/) — Racing to the swings, kids shout ya PERshyi! (I'm first!) and ostANniy — loh! (last one's a loser!) — all in fun.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/3/) — Fingers help too: many Ukrainians count by bending fingers into the palm one by one, so a friend's «three» on the hand can look different from yours.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/4/) — And the first colour: chervOnyi, red — the colour of a football shirt, a fire engine or a ripe tomato.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/5/) — devyanOsto means ninety; it is an odd one, not built as «nine» plus «-ty».
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/6/) — sto means a hundred, and na vsi sto means a hundred per cent.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/7/) — raz, dva, try — pishLY! means one, two, three — go!, used to start a race; pishLY means «let's go» or «we went».
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/8/) — ya shukAyu! means I'm looking, said by the seeker in hide-and-seek, khovAnky, after counting — like «ready or not, I'm coming!».
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/9/) — skIlky? means how many? or how much?, for counting things and asking prices.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/10/) — na PALtsyakh means on the fingers; many Ukrainians count by bending fingers into the palm one by one, so the hand may look different from English counting.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/11/) — ODyn-nol means one–nil, a football score; nol means zero or nil, and nul is also heard.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/12/) — PERshyi means first: ya PERshyi! is I'm first!; a girl says PERsha.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/13/) — ostANniy means the last one; ostANniy — loh! (last one's a loser) is said in fun when racing, and nobody minds.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/14/) — POlovyna means half, and navpIl means in half: dIlymo navpIl, let's split it in half.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/15/) — bIlshe means more and mEnshe means less.

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