Smells that warn, sentence 5
A family in Boston had a boiler that leaked carbon monoxide, a gas with no smell; they kept getting headaches and feeling sleepy until a carbon monoxide alarm went off and they got out in time.
Who acts: family, boiler, eggs, monoxide alarm · What happens: have, leak, keep, get, feel, go off · To what, where: boiler, carbon monoxide, headaches
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 (family, boiler, eggs, monoxide alarm), 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 had | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Boston | case |
| 4 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boiler | det |
| 7 | boiler | boiler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 leaked | nsubj |
| 9 | leaked | leak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boiler | acl:relcl |
| 10 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 monoxide | compound |
| 11 | monoxide | monoxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gas | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gas | det |
| 14 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 monoxide | appos |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 smell | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 smell | det |
| 17 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gas | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kept | nsubj |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | parataxis |
| 21 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 kept | xcomp |
| 22 | headaches | headache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 getting | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 feeling | cc |
| 24 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 getting | conj |
| 25 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feeling | xcomp |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 went | mark |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 alarm | det |
| 28 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 monoxide | compound |
| 29 | monoxide | monoxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 alarm | compound |
| 30 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 feeling | advcl |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 went | compound:prt |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 got | cc |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 got | nsubj |
| 35 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 went | conj |
| 36 | out | out | ADV | _ | 35 got | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 time | case |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 got | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a family in Boston | a boiler | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boiler=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leak | past | a boiler | carbon monoxide | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location monoxide=Source | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | eggs = egg | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | gerund | eggs = egg not said here | headaches | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headache=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | feel | gerund | eggs = egg not said here | sleepy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | go off | past | a monoxide alarm | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | get out | past | eggs = egg | time | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «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:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:5.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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