Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 26
Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas with no colour and no smell, so homes with fuel-burning heaters or boilers need a carbon monoxide alarm.
Who acts: Carbon monoxide, homes · What happens: be, burn, need · To what, where: poisonous gas, monoxide alarm
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 (Carbon monoxide, homes), 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 | Carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 monoxide | compound |
| 2 | monoxide | monoxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gas | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gas | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gas | det |
| 5 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gas | amod |
| 6 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 colour | case |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 colour | det |
| 9 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gas | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smell | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 smell | det |
| 12 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 colour | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 need | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 need | advmod |
| 15 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 need | nsubj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 heaters | case |
| 17 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burning | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 heaters | punct |
| 19 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 heaters | amod |
| 20 | heaters | heater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 homes | nmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 boilers | cc |
| 22 | boilers | boiler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heaters | conj |
| 23 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gas | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 alarm | det |
| 25 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 monoxide | compound |
| 26 | monoxide | monoxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 alarm | compound |
| 27 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 need | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gas | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Carbon monoxide | a poisonous gas | with no colour and no smell | tree rules | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | need | present | homes with burning heaters or boilers | a monoxide alarm | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot alarm=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:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:26.
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): R8-pos-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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