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title: Being near something when it breaks does not mean you broke it, and… — Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being near something when it breaks does not mean you broke it, and an accident is not the same as doing it on purpose. Who acts: old, you, accident. 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 
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# Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home, sentence 21

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Being near something when it breaks does not mean you broke it, and an accident is not the same as doing it on purpose.

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**Who acts:** old, you, accident · **What happens:** break, not mean, not be, do · **To what, where:** old, purpose · **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 (old, you, accident), 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:21
# text = Being near something when it breaks does not mean you broke it, and an accident is not the same as doing it on purpose.
# 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	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	csubj	_	_
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **break** | present | old |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **break** | past | you | old |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | a accident |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | gerund | a accident *not said here* | old |  | purpose |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:21`.

**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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