--- title: Copying game moves on a little brother — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Copying game moves on a little brother», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Noah had been watching fighting games at Theo's, and in the living room he decided to try a flying kick on his little brother Alfi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Copying game moves on a little brother # Copying game moves on a little brother Lesson 403 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 30 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/0/) — Noah had been watching fighting games at Theo's, and in the living room he decided to try a flying kick on his little brother Alfie, who is six. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/2/) — Alfie flew into the coffee table, split his lip and screamed the house down. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/3/) — There was no health bar. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/4/) — There was a trip to the minor injuries unit, a mum who didn't speak to Noah for the whole car journey, and no console for a month. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/5/) — Alfie, meanwhile, had learned something too: the sound effects. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/6/) — On Monday he stood on a chair at nursery and bellowed «FINISH HIM!» at a boy holding a toy dinosaur. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/7/) — The nursery teacher rang home. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/8/) — Mum looked at Noah. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/9/) — Noah looked at the floor. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/11/) — It was the same story elsewhere. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/12/) — Kai showed his cousin «the special grab» and it actually hurt — the cousin cried and the visit ended early. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/13/) — Ollie demonstrated a «combo» on the sofa and his little sister got an elbow in the eye, which was purple for a week. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/14/) — Ruby's cousin copied a game finishing move on a classmate at school, and the classmate fell and banged his head; the cousin was excluded for two days and the other boy's parents were furious. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/16/) — Real bodies bruise, bones break, heads that hit floors can be badly hurt, and nothing resets. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/17/) — And the person hurt is often the youngest and smallest in the room — the one who trusted you. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/18/) — Some boys found the funny version. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/20/) — Leo «freezes» his brother with an ice move, and his brother freezes like a statue, wobbling, until he can't stop laughing. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/21/) — When Zara's brother wanted to practise game moves on the trampoline, Zara said, «No moves. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/22/) — Bouncing contest instead,» and he went for it. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/23/) — Games are for the screen; the fun bit off-screen is the pretending. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/24/) — In games characters get up again with full health, but real people do not. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/25/) — Moves copied from games can cause real injuries such as cuts, black eyes, broken bones and head injuries. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/26/) — A hit on the head, or a fall that bangs the head, can be serious and needs an adult's attention. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/27/) — Younger brothers and sisters are smaller and more easily hurt, and they trust older children. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/28/) — Little children copy what older children say and do, including shouting phrases from games. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/29/) — Hurting someone at school by copying a game move can lead to serious trouble, such as being excluded. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/30/) — Stage and film fights are faked by trained people, using careful tricks and camera angles, so that nobody gets hurt. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/31/) — Make-believe play with no touching, like freezing or pretend battles, can be just as much fun. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/32/) — Trampolines cause many injuries, and playing rough on them makes accidents much more likely. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/33/) — When someone is hurt, the right thing is to stop at once, help them and get an adult. - ← previous: [Nightmares after a scary game](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/) - next →: [Parents' rules for big games](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)