--- title: Noah had been watching fighting games at Theo's, and in the living r… — Copying game moves on a little brother · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Noah, Alfie. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noah, Alfie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 aux _ _ 4 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 fighting fighting NOUN NN _ 6 compound _ _ 6 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Theo Theo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 decided decide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 kick kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 27 Alfie Alfie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | past · perfect · progressive | Noah | fighting games | | Theo | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 2 | **decide** | past | Noah | | | the living room | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Noah *not said here* | a flying kick | | | | on Noah's little brother | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Eventuality | | 4 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | Alfie | six | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Nightmares after a scary game, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/32/) - next →: [Copying game moves on a little brother, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/)