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title: Never touching the remote again is not the answer; knowing what to d… — Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never touching the remote again is not the answer; knowing what to do next time is. Who acts: touching. A sentence of the lesson «Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happens and how it feels» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happens and how it feels, sentence 19

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Never touching the remote again is not the answer; knowing what to do next time is.

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**Who acts:** touching · **What happens:** not touch, not be, know, be, do · **To what, where:** remote, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happens and how it feels» of the adult life 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 (touching), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:058-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident.lesson:19
# text = Never touching the remote again is not the answer; knowing what to do next time is.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 058-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **not** **touch** | gerund |  | the remote |  |  | again |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme remote=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **not** **be** *speech: assert* | present | touching | the answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | touching *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | touching *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «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:adult-life:058-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident.lesson:19`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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