Sounds that warn, sentence 18
A smoke alarm that does not work cannot wake you, and most deadly home fires happen at night while people sleep.
Who acts: smoke alarm, deadly home fires, people · What happens: not work, not wake, happen, sleep · To what, where: you
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 (smoke alarm, deadly home fires, people), 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 | 3 alarm | det |
| 2 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 alarm | compound |
| 3 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wake | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 work | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 work | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 work | advmod |
| 7 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 alarm | acl:relcl |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wake | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 wake | advmod |
| 10 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 wake | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 happen | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 happen | cc |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 deadly | advmod |
| 15 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fires | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fires | compound |
| 17 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 happen | nsubj |
| 18 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wake | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 happen | obl |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 sleep | mark |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sleep | nsubj |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 happen | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wake | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not work | present · do-support | a smoke alarm | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not wake | can | a smoke alarm | you | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | happen | present | deadly home fires | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | present | people | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:18.
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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