--- title: Some sounds are made on purpose to warn you: sirens, car horns, smok… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics description: Some sounds are made on purpose to warn you: sirens, car horns, smoke alarms and bike bells all say «pay attention now». Who acts: sirens. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Sounds that warn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/) / 0 # Sounds that warn, sentence 0 Some sounds are made on purpose to warn you: sirens, car horns, smoke alarms and bike bells all say «pay attention now». **Who acts:** sirens · **What happens:** make, warn, say, pay · **To what, where:** sounds, purpose, you, attention · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» 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 (sirens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:0 # text = Some sounds are made on purpose to warn you: sirens, car horns, smoke alarms and bike bells all say «pay attention now». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 012-sounds-that-warn.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 sirens siren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 alarms alarm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 21 all all ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 25 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 now now ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | some sounds | | purpose | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | | | you | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | sirens and car horns and smoke alarms and bike bells | | | | | all *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pay** *in a quote* | infinitive | | attention | | | now | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | 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](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:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:0`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/17/) - next →: [Sounds that warn, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/)