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title: What someone did last time is a clue to check, not proof of what hap… — Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at… · tree and pragmatics
description: What someone did last time is a clue to check, not proof of what happened this time. Who acts: someone, proof. A sentence of the lesson «Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home, sentence 15

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What someone did last time is a clue to check, not proof of what happened this time.

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**Who acts:** someone, proof · **What happens:** do, be, check, happen · **To what, where:** clue, proof

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home» of the world 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 (someone, proof), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:162-who-stole-the-remote-jumping-to-conclusions.lesson:15
# text = What someone did last time is a clue to check, not proof of what happened this time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 162-who-stole-the-remote-jumping-to-conclusions.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	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	csubj	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
16	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **do** | past | someone | a clue |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a clue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **check** | to-infinitive |  | proof |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Theme |
| 4 | **happen** | past | proof |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:world:162-who-stole-the-remote-jumping-to-conclusions.lesson:15`.

**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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