Smells that warn, sentence 7
Natural gas has no smell, so a strong-smelling chemical is added to make leaks noticeable.
Who acts: Natural gas · What happens: have, smell, add, make · To what, where: smell, strong smelling chemical, leaks
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 (Natural gas), 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 | Natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gas | amod |
| 2 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 smell | det |
| 5 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 added | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chemical | det |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chemical | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 strong | punct |
| 11 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 chemical | amod |
| 12 | chemical | chemical | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 added | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 added | aux:pass |
| 14 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 has | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 added | advcl |
| 17 | leaks | leak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | noticeable | noticeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 make | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Natural gas | no smell | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient | ||||
| 2 | smell | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present · passive | a strong smelling chemical | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | leaks | noticeable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leak=Product |
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:7.
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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