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title: Sam "always" eats the biscuits, but this time Dad ate eight of the t… — Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam "always" eats the biscuits, but this time Dad ate eight of the ten. Who acts: Sam, Dad. 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 9

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Sam "always" eats the biscuits, but this time Dad ate eight of the ten.

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**Who acts:** Sam, Dad · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** biscuits, eight

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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 (Sam, Dad), 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:9
# text = Sam "always" eats the biscuits, but this time Dad ate eight of the ten.
# 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **eat** | present | Sam | the biscuits |  |  |  | always *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biscuit=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | past | Dad | eight of the ten |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eight=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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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