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description: Some gases you smell, like rotten eggs, but some, like carbon monoxide from engines, have no smell at all and can kill, which is why homes have carbon monoxide alarms. Who acts: you, homes. A sentence of the lesson «Gases all around: breath and balloons» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary sch
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# Gases all around: breath and balloons, sentence 7

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Some gases you smell, like rotten eggs, but some, like carbon monoxide from engines, have no smell at all and can kill, which is why homes have carbon monoxide alarms.

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**Who acts:** you, homes · **What happens:** smell, have, kill, be · **To what, where:** gases, smell, all, monoxide alarms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gases all around: breath and balloons» of the chemistry 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 (you, homes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:020-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons.lesson:7
# text = Some gases you smell, like rotten eggs, but some, like carbon monoxide from engines, have no smell at all and can kill, which is why homes have carbon monoxide alarms.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 020-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	gases	gas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	engines	engine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	parataxis	_	_
31	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
33	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	alarms	alarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | you | some gases |  |  |  | like rotten eggs; like some carbon monoxide from engines | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gas=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | you *not said here* | no smell |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |
| 3 | **kill** | can | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | homes | monoxide alarms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Patient |

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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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**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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