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title: Smoke alarms give a family the few minutes needed to get out, becaus… — Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics
description: Smoke alarms give a family the few minutes needed to get out, because a house fire can fill rooms with deadly smoke in minutes. Who acts: Smoke alarms, house fire. A sentence of the lesson «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom, sentence 20

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Smoke alarms give a family the few minutes needed to get out, because a house fire can fill rooms with deadly smoke in minutes.

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**Who acts:** Smoke alarms, house fire · **What happens:** give, need, get out, fill · **To what, where:** family, few minutes, rooms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» 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 (Smoke alarms, house fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.lesson:20
# text = Smoke alarms give a family the few minutes needed to get out, because a house fire can fill rooms with deadly smoke in minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.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	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	alarms	alarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
20	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Smoke alarms |  | a family |  | minute |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | participle |  | the few minutes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **get out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fill** | can | a house fire | rooms |  |  | minute | with deadly smoke | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with smoke=Instrument |

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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:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.lesson:20`.

**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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