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title: Ask "could they even have done it?": a two-year-old cannot zip up a… — Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask "could they even have done it?": a two-year-old cannot zip up a schoolbag, and someone at school cannot take a remote at home. Who acts: you, prints, year old, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home» of the world course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home, sentence 20

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Ask "could they even have done it?": a two-year-old cannot zip up a schoolbag, and someone at school cannot take a remote at home.

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**Who acts:** you, prints, year old, someone · **What happens:** ask, do, not zip up, not take · **To what, where:** suspect, schoolbag, remote, home · **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, prints, year old, someone), 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:20
# text = Ask "could they even have done it?": a two-year-old cannot zip up a schoolbag, and someone at school cannot take a remote at home.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	old	old	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	zip	zip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	schoolbag	schoolbag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	nsubj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | could · perfect | prints *= print* | suspect |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **zip up** | can | a year old | a schoolbag |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schoolbag=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **take** | can | someone | a remote |  | home |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent remote=Theme at home=Asset |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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