Sounds that warn, sentence 4
A family in Pennsylvania ignored a chirping smoke alarm with a flat battery for weeks; when a fire started at night the alarm stayed silent, and they woke late to a house full of smoke.
Who acts: family, fire, alarm, alarms · What happens: ignore, chirp, start, stay, wake · To what, where: chirping smoke alarm
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 (family, fire, alarm, alarms), 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 | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ignored | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Pennsylvania | case |
| 4 | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 5 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 alarm | det |
| 7 | chirping | chirp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 alarm | amod |
| 8 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 alarm | compound |
| 9 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ignored | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 battery | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 battery | det |
| 12 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 battery | amod |
| 13 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 alarm | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 weeks | case |
| 15 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ignored | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stayed | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 started | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 started | nsubj |
| 20 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stayed | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 started | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 alarm | det |
| 24 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stayed | nsubj |
| 25 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ignored | parataxis |
| 26 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stayed | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 woke | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 woke | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 woke | nsubj |
| 30 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stayed | conj |
| 31 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 woke | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 house | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 house | det |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 woke | obl |
| 35 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 house | amod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 smoke | case |
| 37 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 full | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ignored | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | past | a family in Pennsylvania | a chirping smoke alarm | week | with a flat battery | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme | ||
| 2 | chirp | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | start | past | a fire | night | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | stay | past | the alarm | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wake | past | alarms = alarm | to a house; late property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
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:4.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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