Smells that warn, sentence 1
A smell of smoke can mean something is burning; act on it even if you see no flames.
Who acts: smell, something, you, smoke · What happens: mean, burn, act, see, smell · To what, where: smell, flames · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Smells 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 (smell, something, you, smoke), 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 smell | det |
| 2 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 smoke | case |
| 4 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smell | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 burning | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 burning | aux |
| 9 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 mean | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 act | punct |
| 11 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 act | obl |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 act | advcl |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 flames | det |
| 19 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | a smell of smoke | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | burn | present · progressive | something | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | act | infinitive | smell | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | you | no flames | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flame=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | smell | smoke | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:1.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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