--- title: A loud, repeating smoke alarm means there may be a fire: get out and… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics description: A loud, repeating smoke alarm means there may be a fire: get out and stay out. Who acts: loud repeating smoke alarm, fire. 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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Sounds that warn, sentence 10 A loud, repeating smoke alarm means there may be a fire: get out and stay out. **Who acts:** loud repeating smoke alarm, fire · **What happens:** repeat, mean, be, get out, stay out · **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 (loud repeating smoke alarm, fire), 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:10 # text = A loud, repeating smoke alarm means there may be a fire: get out and stay out. # 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): R5-strong ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 repeating repeat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 5 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:expl 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:aux 10 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:ccomp 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repeat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **mean** | present | a loud repeating smoke alarm | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | may | a fire | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get out** | infinitive | a loud repeating smoke alarm *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stay out** | infinitive | a loud repeating smoke alarm *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:10`. **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 ×4. **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: [Sounds that warn, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/9/) - next →: [Sounds that warn, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/)