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title: Smoke alarms give families time to escape, and most home fire deaths… — Fire, candles and garage and garden tools · tree and pragmatics
description: Smoke alarms give families time to escape, and most home fire deaths happen in homes without a working alarm. Who acts: Smoke alarms, most fire deaths. A sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Fire, candles and garage and garden tools, sentence 22

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Smoke alarms give families time to escape, and most home fire deaths happen in homes without a working alarm.

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**Who acts:** Smoke alarms, most fire deaths · **What happens:** give, escape, happen · **To what, where:** families, homes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» 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 alarms, most fire deaths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:22
# text = Smoke alarms give families time to escape, and most home fire deaths happen in homes without a working alarm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	alarms	alarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	working	working	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Smoke alarms |  | families |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme |
| 2 | **escape** | to-infinitive | Smoke alarms *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | present | most fire deaths |  |  | homes |  | without a working alarm | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in home=Location |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:22`.

**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.

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

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