Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms, sentence 13

A smoke alarm senses smoke and beeps very loudly; a short chirp every so often means its battery is low, and it should be tested each month with its button; never take its battery out, but tell an adult to change it.

Who acts: smoke alarm, short chirp, battery · What happens: sense, beep, mean, be, test, not take out · To what, where: smoke, battery, adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology 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, short chirp, battery), 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	3 alarm	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 alarm	compound
3	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 senses	nsubj
4	senses	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 senses	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 beeps	cc
7	beeps	beep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 senses	conj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 loudly	advmod
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	7 beeps	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 chirp	det
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chirp	amod
13	chirp	chirp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
14	every	every	ADV	_	15 so	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 often	advmod
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 means	advmod
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 senses	parataxis
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 battery	nmod:poss
19	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 low	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 low	cop
21	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 means	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tested	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tested	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tested	nsubj:pass
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tested	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 tested	aux:pass
27	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 means	conj
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 month	det
29	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tested	obl:unmarked
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 button	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 button	nmod:poss
32	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tested	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 take	punct
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 take	advmod
35	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 senses	parataxis
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 battery	nmod:poss
37	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obj
38	out	out	ADP	_	35 take	compound:prt
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tell	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 tell	cc
41	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 take	conj
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 adult	det
43	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tell	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 change	mark
45	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 tell	xcomp
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 change	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 senses	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sense	present	a smoke alarm	smoke				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus
2	beep	present	a smoke alarm not said here				loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present	a short chirp				often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	chirp's battery				low property	tree rules
5	test	should · passive		battery		month	with chirp's button	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	not take out	infinitive		chirp's battery				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
8	change not said to happen	to-infinitive		battery				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:technology:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:13.

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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