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title: A smoke alarm that does not work cannot wake you, and most deadly ho… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: A smoke alarm that does not work cannot wake you, and most deadly home fires happen at night while people sleep. Who acts: smoke alarm, deadly home fires, people. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Sounds that warn, sentence 18

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A smoke alarm that does not work cannot wake you, and most deadly home fires happen at night while people sleep.

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**Who acts:** smoke alarm, deadly home fires, people · **What happens:** not work, not wake, happen, sleep · **To what, where:** you

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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 (smoke alarm, deadly home fires, people), 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:18
# text = A smoke alarm that does not work cannot wake you, and most deadly home fires happen at night while people sleep.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **work** | present · do-support | a smoke alarm |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **wake** | can | a smoke alarm | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **happen** | present | deadly home fires |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sleep** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:18`.

**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): no change. **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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