Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 11

A family in Pennsylvania had no working smoke alarm; a fire started at night in the living room, and by the time they woke the stairs were full of smoke.

Who acts: family, fire, Gases, stairs · What happens: have, start, wake, be · To what, where: working smoke alarm, living room

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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, Gases, stairs), 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 Pennsylvania	case
4	Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 alarm	det
7	working	working	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 alarm	compound
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 alarm	compound
9	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 started	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 started	nsubj
13	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 started	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
18	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 room	compound
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 started	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 woke	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 woke	cc
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 woke	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 woke	nsubj
26	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stairs	det
28	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 full	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 full	cop
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woke	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 smoke	case
32	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 full	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a family in Pennsylvania	no working smoke alarm				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Patient
2	start	past	a fire		the living room	night		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	wake	past	Gases = gas			time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	the stairs				of smoke; full property	tree rules

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:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:11.

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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