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title: Ruby's cousin copied a game finishing move on a classmate at school,… — Copying game moves on a little brother · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: cousin, classmate, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Copying game moves on a little brother» of t
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# Copying game moves on a little brother, sentence 14

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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.

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**Who acts:** cousin, classmate, parents · **What happens:** copy, fall, bang, exclude, be · **To what, where:** finishing move, classmate, head, cousin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying game moves on a little brother» of the everyday 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 (cousin, classmate, parents), 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:14
# text = 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.
# 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	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	copied	copy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	finishing	finishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	banged	bang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	excluded	exclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | past | Ruby's cousin | a finishing move |  | a classmate at school |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent move=Theme on classmate=Destination |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the classmate |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bang** | past | the classmate *not said here* | cousin's head |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |
| 4 | **exclude** | past · passive |  | the cousin |  |  | day |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the other boy's parents |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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