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title: He picked a suspect before he looked for a single clue. — Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at… · tree and pragmatics
description: He picked a suspect before he looked for a single clue. Who acts: Ruby. 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 3

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He picked a suspect before he looked for a single clue.

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**Who acts:** Ruby · **What happens:** pick, look · **To what, where:** suspect

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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 (Ruby), 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:3
# text = He picked a suspect before he looked for a single clue.
# 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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	suspect	suspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **pick** | past | Ruby | a suspect |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspect=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | past | Ruby |  |  |  |  | for a single clue | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for clue=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:3`.

**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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