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title: A hit on the head, or a fall that bangs the head, can be serious and… — Copying game moves on a little brother · tree and pragmatics
description: A hit on the head, or a fall that bangs the head, can be serious and needs an adult's attention. Who acts: fall, hit, adult. 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 every clause.
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# Copying game moves on a little brother, sentence 26

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A hit on the head, or a fall that bangs the head, can be serious and needs an adult's attention.

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**Who acts:** fall, hit, adult · **What happens:** bang, be, need, attend · **To what, where:** head, attention

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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 (fall, hit, adult), 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:26
# text = A hit on the head, or a fall that bangs the head, can be serious and needs an adult's attention.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bangs	bang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bang** | present | a fall | the head |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | a hit on the head or a fall |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present | a hit on the head or a fall *not said here* | a adult's attention |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot attention=Theme |
| 4 | **attend** |  | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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**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/).

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