Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations, sentence 3
Ukrainian is the state language, yet many families spoke Russian at home for historical reasons; Danylo's parents switched to Ukrainian in 2022, and the teacher said language choice is personal and changing.
Who acts: Ukrainian, many families, parents, teacher, language choice · What happens: be, speak, switch, say, change · To what, where: state language, Russian, home, Ukrainian, 2022 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» of the history 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 (Ukrainian, many families, parents, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 language | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 language | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 language | det |
| 4 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 language | compound |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
| 7 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 10 spoke | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 families | amod |
| 9 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 language | conj |
| 11 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 reasons | case |
| 15 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reasons | amod |
| 16 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spoke | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 switched | punct |
| 18 | Danylo | Danylo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 parents | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Danylo | case |
| 20 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 switched | nsubj |
| 21 | switched | switch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 language | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Ukrainian | case |
| 23 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 switched | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 2022 | case |
| 25 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 switched | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 teacher | det |
| 29 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 switched | conj |
| 31 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 choice | compound |
| 32 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 personal | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 personal | cop |
| 34 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 said | ccomp |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 changing | cc |
| 36 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 personal | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 language | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ukrainian | the state language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | many families | Russian | home | for historical reasons | tree rules | ||
| 3 | switch | past | Danylo's parents | Ukrainian | 2022 | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ukrainian=Result | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | language choice | personal property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | change | gerund | language choice not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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, 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:history:050-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations.lesson:3.
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 ×2. 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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