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title: A neighbour's smoke alarm chirps once a minute and nothing smells of… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: A neighbour's smoke alarm chirps once a minute and nothing smells of smoke. What is most likely? Test 6 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 6 · Sounds that warn

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A neighbour's smoke alarm chirps once a minute and nothing smells of smoke. What is most likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** smoke alarm, neighbour, smoke · **What happens:** chirp, alarm, smell, be

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This is test 6 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A neighbour's smoke alarm chirps once a minute and nothing smells of smoke.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t6:1
# text = A neighbour's smoke alarm chirps once a minute and nothing smells of smoke.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	chirps	chirp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	compound	_	_
12	smells	smell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chirp** | present | a neighbour's smoke alarm |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **alarm** |  | a neighbour |  |  |  |  |  | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **smell** |  | smoke |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is most likely?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t6:2
# text = What is most likely?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A low battery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t6:o1:1
# text = A low battery
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A big fire next door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t6:o2:1
# text = A big fire next door
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A burglar in the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t6:o3:1
# text = A burglar in the house
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	burglar	burglar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A broken window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t6:o4:1
# text = A broken window
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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