--- title: A family in Pennsylvania ignored a chirping smoke alarm with a flat… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Pennsylvania ignored a chirping smoke alarm with a flat battery for weeks; when a fire started at night the alarm stayed silent, and they woke late to a house full of smoke. Who acts: family, fire, alarm, alarms. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, fire, alarm, alarms), 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:4 # text = A family in Pennsylvania ignored a chirping smoke alarm with a flat battery for weeks; when a fire started at night the alarm stayed silent, and they woke late to a house full of smoke. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ignored ignore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 chirping chirp VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 8 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 26 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 31 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj 35 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ignore** | past | a family in Pennsylvania | a chirping smoke alarm | | | week | with a flat battery | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme | | 2 | **chirp** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **start** | past | a fire | | | | night | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **stay** | past | the alarm | | | | | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **wake** | past | alarms *= alarm* | | | | | to a house; late *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/3/) - next →: [Sounds that warn, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/)