I don't understand — and what's your name?, sentence 11
yak vas zvut? is the polite what's your name?, but children rarely ask grown-ups this; they call adults by first name and father's name, or TItko, auntie.
Who acts: yak, name, children, your, father · What happens: be, ask, call, name · To what, where: this, grown ups, adults · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «I don't understand — and what's your name?» 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 (yak, name, children, your), 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 | yak | yak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 polite | nsubj |
| 2 | vas | vas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 zvut | compound |
| 3 | zvut | zvut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 yak | appos |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 zvut | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 polite | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 polite | det |
| 7 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 polite | ccomp |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | cop |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 what | nsubj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 polite | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ask | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 children | cc |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ask | nsubj |
| 16 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 17 ask | advmod |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 polite | conj |
| 18 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ups | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ups | punct |
| 20 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ask | iobj |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 ask | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 call | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 call | nsubj |
| 24 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 polite | parataxis |
| 25 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 call | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 name | case |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 name | amod |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 call | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 father | cc |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 name | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 father | case |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 name | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 TItko | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 TItko | cc |
| 35 | TItko | TItko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 name | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 auntie | punct |
| 37 | auntie | auntie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 TItko | appos |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 polite | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | yak | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | your name | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | children | this | grown ups | rarely property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | call | present | children = child | adults | by first name and father's name or TItko | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||
| 5 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | name | father | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:004-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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