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title: Carbon monoxide has no smell or colour, and it can make people sleep… — Smells that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: Carbon monoxide has no smell or colour, and it can make people sleepy, sick and even kill them. Who acts: Carbon monoxide, monoxide. A sentence of the lesson «Smells that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Smells that warn, sentence 19

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Carbon monoxide has no smell or colour, and it can make people sleepy, sick and even kill them.

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**Who acts:** Carbon monoxide, monoxide · **What happens:** have, make, kill · **To what, where:** smell, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Smells 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 (Carbon monoxide, monoxide), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:19
# text = Carbon monoxide has no smell or colour, and it can make people sleepy, sick and even kill them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 013-smells-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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Carbon monoxide | no smell or colour |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | can | monoxide | people |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material people=Product |
| 3 | **kill** | infinitive | monoxide *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:19`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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