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title: Real bodies bruise, bones break, heads that hit floors can be badly… — Copying game moves on a little brother · tree and pragmatics
description: Real bodies bruise, bones break, heads that hit floors can be badly hurt, and nothing resets. Who acts: Real bodies, bones, heads, nothing. A sentence of the lesson «Copying game moves on a little brother» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Copying game moves on a little brother, sentence 16

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Real bodies bruise, bones break, heads that hit floors can be badly hurt, and nothing resets.

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**Who acts:** Real bodies, bones, heads, nothing · **What happens:** bruise, break, hit, hurt, reset · **To what, where:** floors, heads

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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 (Real bodies, bones, heads, nothing), 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:16
# text = Real bodies bruise, bones break, heads that hit floors can be badly hurt, and nothing resets.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bruise	bruise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hit	hit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:cop
14	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
19	resets	reset	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **bruise** | present | Real bodies |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | present | bones |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hit** | present | heads | floors |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **hurt** | can · passive |  | heads |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **reset** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:16`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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