Copying game moves on a little brother, sentence 0

Noah had been watching fighting games at Theo's, and in the living room he decided to try a flying kick on his little brother Alfie, who is six.

Who acts: Noah, Alfie · What happens: watch, decide, try, fly, be · To what, where: fighting games, Theo, living room, flying kick, six

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 (Noah, Alfie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 watching	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 watching	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 watching	aux
4	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	fighting	fighting	NOUN	_	6 games	compound
6	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 watching	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Theo	case
8	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 watching	obl
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Theo	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 decided	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 decided	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 room	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
14	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 room	compound
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 decided	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 decided	nsubj
17	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 watching	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 try	mark
19	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 decided	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 kick	det
21	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 kick	amod
22	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 try	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 brother	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brother	nmod:poss
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 brother	amod
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 try	obl
27	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 brother	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 six	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 six	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 six	cop
31	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 Alfie	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 watching	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect · progressive	Noah	fighting games	Theo		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	decide	past	Noah		the living room		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	Noah not said here	a flying kick		on Noah's little brother	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Eventuality
4	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	Alfie	six			tree rules

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.

Licence: CC 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:0.

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.

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