Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home, sentence 21

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 · What happens: break, not mean, not be, do · To what, where: old, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 near	cop
2	near	near	ADP	_	9 mean	csubj
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 near	obl
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 breaks	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 breaks	nsubj
6	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 near	advcl
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 broke	nsubj
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 broke	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 same	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 same	cc
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 accident	det
16	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 same	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 same	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 same	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 same	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mean	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 doing	mark
22	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 same	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 doing	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 purpose	case
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 doing	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

Licence: CC 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.

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