Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy", sentence 3
Teachers and older adults are called by first name plus father's name — if a teacher is Olena and her father was Petro, she is Olena PetrIvna, and getting that ending right sounds very respectful.
Who acts: first name, teacher, father, guest, getting · What happens: call, be, get, sound, name · To what, where: Teachers, Olena, Petro, Olena PetrIvna, ending · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"» 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 (first name, teacher, father, guest), 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 | Teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 adults | cc |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 adults | amod |
| 4 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Teachers | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 name | case |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obl |
| 10 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 13 name | cc |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | conj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Olena | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 Olena | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 teacher | det |
| 17 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Olena | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Olena | cop |
| 19 | Olena | Olena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Petro | cc |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Petro | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Petro | cop |
| 24 | Petro | Petro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Olena | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 PetrIvna | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 PetrIvna | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 PetrIvna | cop |
| 28 | Olena | Olena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 PetrIvna | compound |
| 29 | PetrIvna | PetrIvna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Olena | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sounds | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sounds | cc |
| 32 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 sounds | csubj |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 ending | det |
| 34 | ending | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 getting | obj |
| 35 | right | right | ADV | _ | 32 getting | advmod |
| 36 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | conj |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 respectful | advmod |
| 38 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 sounds | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | first name plus father's name | Teachers and older adults | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | a teacher | Olena and Petro and Olena PetrIvna | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | guest's father | Petro | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | guest | Olena PetrIvna | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | gerund | that ending | right property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | sound | present | getting | respectful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | 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:006-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy.lesson:3.
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): no change. 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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