--- title: Some popular beliefs about home safety are simply wrong, and believi… — Home myths, first aid and weather warnings · tree and pragmatics description: Some popular beliefs about home safety are simply wrong, and believing them can hurt you: a switch can fail, germs do not wait five seconds, and an open door does not stop fire. Who acts: popular beliefs, switch, germs, open door. 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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 (popular beliefs, switch, germs, open door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:0 # text = Some popular beliefs about home safety are simply wrong, and believing them can hurt you: a switch can fail, germs do not wait five seconds, and an open door does not stop fire. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 beliefs belief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 simply simply ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 believing believe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 switch switch NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 27 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 37 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some popular beliefs about home safety | | | | | simply, wrong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **believe** | gerund | some popular beliefs about home safety *not said here* | beliefs *= belief* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** | can | | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | | 4 | **fail** | can | a switch | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **wait** | present · do-support | germs | | | | second | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **stop** | present · do-support | a open door | fire | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fire=Eventuality | 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:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Bedroom, living room and manners at home, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners/18/) - next →: [Home myths, first aid and weather warn…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/)