Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight, sentence 7

maLYuk and malEcha mean little one or the little ones; adults use them about small children, and kids of nine or ten don't like being called maLYuk.

Who acts: adults, kids · What happens: mean, use, not like, call · To what, where: little one, maLYuk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight» 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 (adults, 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	maLYuk	maLYuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mean	cc
3	malEcha	malEcha	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 maLYuk	conj
4	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 maLYuk	conj
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 mean	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 ones	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ones	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 use	punct
12	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 use	nsubj
13	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 use	obj
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 children	case
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 children	amod
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 use	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 like	cc
20	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 like	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 nine	case
22	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 kids	nmod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 ten	cc
24	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 nine	conj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 like	advmod
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 use	conj
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 called	aux:pass
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 like	xcomp
30	maLYuk	maLYuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present		little one or the little ones		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	use	present	adults	maLYuk	about small children	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	not like	present · do-support	kids of nine			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	call not said to happen	gerund · passive	kids of nine not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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:007-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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