Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home, sentence 7

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 · What happens: check, ask, be, reach, look · To what, where: easy things, simple questions, switch

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 check	nsubj
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 things	det
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 check	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 check	advmod
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 pockets	punct
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pockets	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pockets	amod
10	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 things	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 head	punct
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 head	amod
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pockets	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 switch	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 switch	det
17	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 switch	compound
18	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pockets	conj
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 pockets	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ask	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 ask	advmod
22	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 check	advcl
23	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 questions	amod
24	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ask	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 there	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 there	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 there	cop
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 ask	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 reach	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 reach	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 reach	aux
32	even	even	ADV	_	33 reach	advmod
33	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 check	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reach	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 look	punct
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 look	obl
37	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 look	aux
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 clues	det
39	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 look	nsubj
40	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 reach	conj
41	like	like	ADP	_	40 look	advmod
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 check	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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: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.

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