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title: bIlshe means more and mEnshe means less. — To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour · tree and pragmatics
description: bIlshe means more and mEnshe means less. Who acts: bIlshe, mEnshe. A sentence of the lesson «To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour, sentence 15

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bIlshe means more and mEnshe means less.

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**Who acts:** bIlshe, mEnshe · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** less

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This is a sentence of the lesson «To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour» 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 (bIlshe, mEnshe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:009-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red.lesson:15
# text = bIlshe means more and mEnshe means less.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 009-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	bIlshe	bilshe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:discourse|HaikuPos=INTJ:UH:_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	mEnshe	menshe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | bIlshe |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | mEnshe | less |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Topic |

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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:009-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red.lesson:15`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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