Fire at home, sentence 14
Most people who die in house fires are killed by smoke, not by the flames.
Who acts: Most people, smoke · What happens: die, kill · To what, where: Most people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire at home» 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 (Most people, 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fires | case |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fires | compound |
| 7 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 die | obl |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux:pass |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 smoke | case |
| 11 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flames | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 flames | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 flames | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flames | det |
| 16 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 smoke | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | Most people | in house fires | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in fire=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | kill | present · passive | smoke and the flames | Most people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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:034-fire-at-home.lesson:14.
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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