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title: Ruby, you were watching cartoons." Ruby was at school all day, and t… — Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ruby, you were watching cartoons." Ruby was at school all day, and the remote is in Dad's own dressing-gown pocket. Who acts: you, Ruby, remote. 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 t
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# Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home, sentence 2

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Ruby, you were watching cartoons." Ruby was at school all day, and the remote is in Dad's own dressing-gown pocket.

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**Who acts:** you, Ruby, remote · **What happens:** watch, be · **To what, where:** cartoons, school, own gown pocket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Ruby, remote), 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:2
# text = Ruby, you were watching cartoons." Ruby was at school all day, and the remote is in Dad's own dressing-gown pocket.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
9	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
21	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
24	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **watch** | past · progressive | you | cartoons |  |  |  | Ruby *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Ruby |  |  | school and Dad's own gown pocket | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the remote |  |  | Dad's own gown pocket |  |  | 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:world:162-who-stole-the-remote-jumping-to-conclusions.lesson:2`.

**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. **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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