Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home, sentence 24
Words people use: "nicked" means stole (UK), "Sherlock" is a teasing name for someone playing detective badly, "sus" means suspicious, "no cap" means honestly, "it's giving charcoal" means it looks like charcoal (young slang), "sass" means cheek, "ye wee rascal" is a fond Scottish telling-off, and "resting his eyes" is a joke for having a nap.
Who acts: people, Sherlock, teasing name, cap, charcoal, sass · What happens: use, nick, mean, be, play, give · To what, where: Words, stole, teasing name, detective, suspicious, cheek · 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 (people, Sherlock, teasing name, cap), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 means | advcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 nicked | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nicked | punct |
| 6 | nicked | nick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nicked | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 9 | stole | stole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 UK | punct |
| 11 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stole | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 UK | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 name | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sherlock | punct |
| 15 | Sherlock | sherlock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 name | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sherlock | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 name | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 name | det |
| 19 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 name | compound |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | nsubj |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 playing | mark |
| 22 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 name | nmod |
| 23 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 someone | acl |
| 24 | detective | detective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 playing | obj |
| 25 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 playing | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sus | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 sus | punct |
| 28 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 sus | punct |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 means | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 suspicious | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 cap | punct |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 cap | det |
| 35 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 means | nsubj |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 cap | punct |
| 37 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 means | advcl |
| 38 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 37 means | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 means | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 giving | punct |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 giving | nsubj |
| 42 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 giving | aux |
| 43 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 59 means | advcl |
| 44 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 means | nsubj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 charcoal | punct |
| 46 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 giving | ccomp |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 looks | nsubj |
| 48 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 means | ccomp |
| 49 | like | like | ADP | _ | 50 charcoal | case |
| 50 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 looks | obl |
| 51 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 53 slang | punct |
| 52 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 slang | amod |
| 53 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 charcoal | appos |
| 54 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 53 slang | punct |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 sass | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 sass | punct |
| 57 | sass | sass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 means | nsubj |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 sass | punct |
| 59 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 means | ccomp |
| 60 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 means | obj |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 means | punct |
| 62 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 rascal | punct |
| 63 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 65 rascal | compound |
| 64 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 rascal | compound |
| 65 | rascal | rascal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 off | nsubj |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 rascal | punct |
| 67 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 73 off | cop |
| 68 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 73 off | det |
| 69 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 off | nsubj |
| 70 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 off | amod |
| 71 | telling | telling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 off | compound |
| 72 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 73 off | punct |
| 73 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 means | ccomp |
| 74 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 83 joke | punct |
| 75 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 83 joke | cc |
| 76 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 77 resting | punct |
| 77 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 83 joke | csubj |
| 78 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 79 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 79 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 77 resting | obj |
| 80 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 77 resting | punct |
| 81 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 83 joke | cop |
| 82 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 83 joke | det |
| 83 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 off | conj |
| 84 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 85 having | mark |
| 85 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 83 joke | acl |
| 86 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 87 nap | det |
| 87 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 85 having | obj |
| 88 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | people | Words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | nick in a quote | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | stole | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stole=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Sherlock | a teasing name | someone nmod | tree rules | |||
| 5 | play | gerund | detective | badly property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detective=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | a teasing name | suspicious | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | no cap | honestly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | give in a quote | present · progressive | cap | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | mean | present | charcoal | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | look | present | charcoal | like charcoal | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 11 | mean | present | sass | cheek | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Topic | ||||
| 12 | is a | present | ye wee rascal | a Scottish telling off and a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 13 | rest in a quote | gerund | sass's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||||
| 14 | be speech: other | present | resting | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 15 | have | gerund | a joke not said here | a nap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient |
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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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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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