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title: They check the easy things first (your own pockets, your own head, t… — Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at… · tree and pragmatics
description: They check the easy things first (your own pockets, your own head, the plug switch), then ask simple questions: who was there, who could even reach it, what do the clues look like? Who acts: detectives, clues. A sentence of the lesson «Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home» of the wor
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# Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home, sentence 7

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They check the easy things first (your own pockets, your own head, the plug switch), then ask simple questions: who was there, who could even reach it, what do the clues look like?

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**Who acts:** detectives, clues · **What happens:** check, ask, be, reach, look · **To what, where:** easy things, simple questions, switch

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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 (detectives, clues), 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:7
# text = They check the easy things first (your own pockets, your own head, the plug switch), then ask simple questions: who was there, who could even reach it, what do the clues look like?
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
23	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
37	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	?	?	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 | **check** | present | detectives *= detective* | the easy things and your own pockets and your own head and the plug switch |  |  |  | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | detectives *= detective* *not said here* | simple questions |  |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach** | could |  | switch |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | present · do-support | the clues |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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