Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 11

"zaichyk" or "zaya", bunny, is a loving nickname that mums and grannies give little ones; between boys of nine or ten it may embarrass.

Who acts: zaichyk, mums, answer · What happens: be, give, embarrass · To what, where: loving nickname

This is a sentence of the lesson «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» 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 (zaichyk, mums, answer), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 zaichyk	punct
2	zaichyk	zaichyk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nickname	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 zaichyk	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 zaya	cc
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 zaya	punct
6	zaya	zaya	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 zaichyk	conj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 zaya	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bunny	punct
9	bunny	bunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 zaichyk	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nickname	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 nickname	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 nickname	det
13	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nickname	amod
14	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 give	obj
16	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grannies	cc
18	grannies	granny	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mums	conj
19	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 nickname	acl:relcl
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ones	amod
21	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 embarrass	punct
23	between	between	ADP	_	24 boys	case
24	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 embarrass	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 nine	case
26	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 boys	nmod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 ten	cc
28	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 nine	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 embarrass	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 embarrass	aux
31	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 give	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 nickname	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed hedge=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	zaichyk or zaya	a loving nickname		tree rules
2	give	present	mums and grannies	a loving nickname		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient one=Theme
3	embarrass	may	answer		between boys of nine	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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:ukrainian-street:027-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve.lesson:11.

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): no change. 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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