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title: Example: you walk into a kitchen and smell rotten eggs — do not touc… — Smells that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: you walk into a kitchen and smell rotten eggs — do not touch the light switch; leave, and tell an adult from outside. Who acts: you. 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 4

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Example: you walk into a kitchen and smell rotten eggs — do not touch the light switch; leave, and tell an adult from outside.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** walk, smell, not touch, leave, tell · **To what, where:** kitchen, rotten eggs, light switch, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you), 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:4
# text = Example: you walk into a kitchen and smell rotten eggs — do not touch the light switch; leave, and tell an adult from outside.
# 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	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | you |  |  |  |  | into a kitchen *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Result |
| 2 | **smell** | present | you *not said here* | rotten eggs |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **touch** | infinitive · do-support |  | the light switch |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme switch=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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: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): 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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