Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up, sentence 15

Smart speakers listen for a wake word and sometimes switch on by mistake when they hear a word that sounds like it; grown-ups can mute them or check their settings.

Who acts: Smart speakers, speakers, word, grown ups · What happens: listen, switch on, hear, sound, mute, check · To what, where: word, speakers, settings

This is a sentence of the lesson «Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up» of the ai 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 (Smart speakers, speakers, word, grown ups), 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	Smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 speakers	amod
2	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listen	nsubj
3	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 word	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	compound
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listen	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 switch	cc
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 switch	advmod
10	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 listen	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 switch	compound:prt
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 mistake	case
13	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 switch	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 hear	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hear	nsubj
16	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 switch	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 sounds	nsubj
20	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 word	acl:relcl
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sounds	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
24	grown	grown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ups	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 grown	punct
26	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mute	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 mute	aux
28	mute	mute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 listen	parataxis
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 mute	obj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 check	cc
31	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 mute	conj
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 settings	nmod:poss
33	settings	setting	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 check	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	present	Smart speakers		for a wake word	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for word=Theme
2	switch on	present	Smart speakers not said here		by mistake; sometimes property	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	hear	present	speakers = speaker	a word		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	sound	present	a word		like word	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	mute	can	grown ups	speakers = speaker		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	check	infinitive	grown ups not said here	speakers's settings		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent setting=Theme

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:ai:016-secrets-scams-telling.lesson:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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