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title: Little children copy what older children say and do, including shout… — Copying game moves on a little brother · tree and pragmatics
description: Little children copy what older children say and do, including shouting phrases from games. Who acts: Little children, older children. 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 ever
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# Copying game moves on a little brother, sentence 28

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Little children copy what older children say and do, including shouting phrases from games.

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**Who acts:** Little children, older children · **What happens:** copy, say, do, include, shout · **To what, where:** phrases, games · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Little children, older children), 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:28
# text = Little children copy what older children say and do, including shouting phrases from games.
# 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	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	copy	copy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	mark	_	_
12	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **copy** | present | Little children |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | older children |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | present | older children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | Little children *not said here* | phrases |  | games |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Topic |

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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:28`.

**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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