Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners, sentence 10
"ne svystY v khati" means "don't whistle in the house"; the superstition says whistling indoors "whistles the money away".
Who acts: svystY v khati, superstition · What happens: mean, not whistle, say, whistle, whistle away · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» 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 (svystY v khati, superstition), 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 | _ | 5 khati | punct |
| 2 | ne | ne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 svystY | compound |
| 3 | svystY | svysty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 khati | compound |
| 4 | v | v | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 khati | compound |
| 5 | khati | khati | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 khati | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 whistle | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 whistle | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 whistle | advmod |
| 11 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whistle | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 whistle | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 says | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 superstition | det |
| 18 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 says | nsubj |
| 19 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | parataxis |
| 20 | whistling | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 whistles | nsubj |
| 21 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 20 whistling | advmod |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 whistles | punct |
| 23 | whistles | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 says | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 money | det |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 whistles | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 whistles | advmod |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 whistles | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | svystY v khati | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not whistle in a quote | infinitive · do-support | in the house | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in house=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the superstition | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | whistle | gerund | indoors property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | whistle away in a quote | present | the money | away property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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:030-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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