Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 30
A working smoke alarm can give you the few minutes you need to escape a fire.
Who acts: smoke alarm, you, few minutes · What happens: give, need, escape · To what, where: you, few minutes, fire
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 (smoke alarm, you, few minutes), 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 | 4 alarm | det |
| 2 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smoke | compound |
| 3 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alarm | compound |
| 4 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 minutes | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minutes | amod |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 need | nsubj |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 minutes | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 escape | mark |
| 14 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 need | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 escape | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | 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 | give | can | a smoke alarm | you | minute | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | need | present | you | the few minutes not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | the few minutes not said here | a fire | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Initial_Location |
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:30.
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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