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title: Make-believe play with no touching, like freezing or pretend battles… — Copying game moves on a little brother · tree and pragmatics
description: Make-believe play with no touching, like freezing or pretend battles, can be just as much fun. Who acts: you. 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 31

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Make-believe play with no touching, like freezing or pretend battles, can be just as much fun.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** make, believe, freeze, be · **To what, where:** play, much fun · **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 (you), 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:31
# text = Make-believe play with no touching, like freezing or pretend battles, can be just as much fun.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	touching	touching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	ccomp	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	pretend	pretend	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | infinitive | you *not said here* | play |  |  |  | with no touching | tree rules |
| 3 | **freeze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | can | you *not said here* | much fun |  |  |  |  | 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:31`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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