Sounds that warn, sentence 11
A single short chirp every minute or so from a smoke alarm usually means its battery is low.
Who acts: single short chirp, battery · What happens: mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday 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 (single short chirp, battery), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chirp | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chirp | amod |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chirp | amod |
| 4 | chirp | chirp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 minute | det |
| 6 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chirp | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 so | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 minute | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 alarm | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 alarm | det |
| 11 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 alarm | compound |
| 12 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chirp | nmod |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 means | advmod |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 battery | nmod:poss |
| 16 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 low | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 low | cop |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 means | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a single short chirp every minute from a smoke alarm | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | chirp's battery | low property | tree rules |
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:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:11.
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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