Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 7

"ya pozhartuvav" means "I was joking", said by a boy to make up after a tease went too far; "zhart" means a joke.

Who acts: ya pozhartuvav, kolyadky, I, tease, zhart · What happens: mean, joke, say, make up, go · To what, where: joke · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (ya pozhartuvav, kolyadky, I, tease), 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	_	3 pozhartuvav	punct
2	ya	ya	X	Foreign=Yes	3 pozhartuvav	compound
3	pozhartuvav	pozhartuvav	X	Foreign=Yes	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 pozhartuvav	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 joking	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 joking	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 joking	aux
9	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 means	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 joking	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 joking	xcomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 boy	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl:agent
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 make	compound:prt
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 went	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tease	det
21	tease	tease	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 make	advcl
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 far	advmod
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 went	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 far	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 zhart	punct
27	zhart	zhart	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	nsubj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 zhart	punct
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 joke	det
31	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	ya pozhartuvav			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	joke speech: other in a quote	past · progressive	kolyadky and carols = kolyadky			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	participle	I not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make up	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	go	past	a tease		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	mean	present	zhart	a joke		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic

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:7.

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): R8-pos-agree ×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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