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title: Leo «freezes» his brother with an ice move, and his brother freezes… — Copying game moves on a little brother · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo «freezes» his brother with an ice move, and his brother freezes like a statue, wobbling, until he can't stop laughing. Who acts: Leo, brother. 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 pragma
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# Copying game moves on a little brother, sentence 20

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Leo «freezes» his brother with an ice move, and his brother freezes like a statue, wobbling, until he can't stop laughing.

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**Who acts:** Leo, brother · **What happens:** freeze, wobble, not stop, laugh · **To what, where:** brother

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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 (Leo, brother), 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:20
# text = Leo «freezes» his brother with an ice move, and his brother freezes like a statue, wobbling, until he can't stop laughing.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	wobbling	wobble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
27	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **freeze** *in a quote* | present | Leo | Leo's brother |  |  |  | with a ice move | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent brother=Patient with move=Instrument |
| 2 | **freeze** | present | Leo's brother |  |  |  |  | like a statue | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **wobble** | gerund | Leo's brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **stop** | can | brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **laugh** | gerund | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:20`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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.

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

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