Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 16
"kolyadky" are carols; children go from house to house singing them, and the hosts give sweets or coins.
Who acts: kolyadky, children, hosts · What happens: be, go, sing, give · To what, where: carols, house, children, sweets
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 (kolyadky, children, hosts), 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 kolyadky | punct |
| 2 | kolyadky | kolyadky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carols | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 kolyadky | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 carols | cop |
| 5 | carols | carol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | parataxis |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod |
| 13 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 go | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 singing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hosts | det |
| 18 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 give | nsubj |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 20 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 give | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 coins | cc |
| 22 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sweets | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carols | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | kolyadky | carols | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | children | house to house | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | children not said here | children = child | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | present | the hosts | sweets or coins | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme |
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:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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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