Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve, sentence 9

"mat" or "matyuky" are the strong swear words; older kids and some adults use them, they shock grannies, and they are never said at a friend's home.

Who acts: mat, older kids, kids · What happens: be, use, shock, not say · To what, where: strong swear words, mat, grannies, kids, home · 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 (mat, older kids, kids), 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 mat	punct
2	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 words	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 mat	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 matyuky	cc
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 matyuky	punct
6	matyuky	matyuky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mat	conj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 matyuky	punct
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 words	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 words	det
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
11	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 words	compound
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 kids	punct
14	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 kids	amod
15	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 use	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 adults	det
18	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kids	conj
19	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 words	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 use	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shock	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shock	nsubj
23	shock	shock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 use	conj
24	grannies	granny	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shock	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 said	aux:pass
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 said	advmod
30	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 use	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	35 home	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 friend	det
33	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 home	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 friend	case
35	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 words	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	mat or matyuky	the strong swear words		tree rules
2	use	present	older kids and some adults	mat		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	shock	present	kids = kid	grannies		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus granny=Experiencer
4	not say speech: assert	present · passive		kids = kid	a friend's home	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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:9.

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, R7-rel-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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