--- title: When something doesn't work, test the simple causes first: is the so… — Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at… · tree and pragmatics description: When something doesn't work, test the simple causes first: is the socket switched on, is the cable in? Who acts: something, you. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/162-who-stole-the-remote-jumping-to-conclusions/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Who stole the remote? Jumping to concl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/162-who-stole-the-remote-jumping-to-conclusions/) / 17 # Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home, sentence 17 When something doesn't work, test the simple causes first: is the socket switched on, is the cable in? **Who acts:** something, you · **What happens:** not work, test, switch on, be · **To what, where:** simple causes, socket, cable 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 (something, you), 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:17 # text = When something doesn't work, test the simple causes first: is the socket switched on, is the cable in? # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 test test VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 causes cause NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 advmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:cop 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 socket socket NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 switched switch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 on on ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **work** | present · do-support | something | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **test** | imperative | you *not said here* | the simple causes | | | | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme | | 3 | **switch on** | present · passive | | the socket | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | the cable | | | 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](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:17`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Who stole the remote? Jumping to concl…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/162-who-stole-the-remote-jumping-to-conclusions/16/) - next →: [Who stole the remote? 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