--- title: A family in Boston had a boiler that leaked carbon monoxide, a gas w… — Smells that warn · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Boston had a boiler that leaked carbon monoxide, a gas with no smell; they kept getting headaches and feeling sleepy until a carbon monoxide alarm went off and they got out in time. Who acts: family, boiler, eggs, monoxide alarm. 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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, boiler, eggs, monoxide alarm), 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:5 # text = A family in Boston had a boiler that leaked carbon monoxide, a gas with no smell; they kept getting headaches and feeling sleepy until a carbon monoxide alarm went off and they got out in time. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 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 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boiler boiler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 leaked leak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 monoxide monoxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 headaches headache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ _ 25 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 until until SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 monoxide monoxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 32 off off ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 out out ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | a family in Boston | a boiler | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boiler=Patient | | 2 | **leak** | past | a boiler | carbon monoxide | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location monoxide=Source | | 3 | **keep** | past | eggs *= egg* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | gerund | eggs *= egg* *not said here* | headaches | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headache=Stimulus | | 5 | **feel** | gerund | eggs *= egg* *not said here* | | | | | sleepy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **go off** | past | a monoxide alarm | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **get out** | past | eggs *= egg* | | | | time | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:5`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Smells that warn, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/13-smells-that-warn/4/) - next →: [Smells that warn, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/13-smells-that-warn/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/13-smells-that-warn/)