--- title: If you smell gas, you leave the house without switching anything on… — Home alone, the door and the phone · tree and pragmatics description: If you smell gas, you leave the house without switching anything on or off, because a tiny spark from a switch could set the gas alight, and call for help from outside. Who acts: you, tiny spark. 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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 (you, tiny spark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:035-home-alone.lesson:19 # text = If you smell gas, you leave the house without switching anything on or off, because a tiny spark from a switch could set the gas alight, and call for help from outside. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 035-home-alone.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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smell smell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 switching switch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 switch switch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 alight alight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 outside outside ADV RB _ 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=warn, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | gas | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gas=Stimulus | | 2 | **leave** | present | you | the house | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 3 | **switch** | gerund | you *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 4 | **set** | could | a tiny spark from a switch | the gas | | | | alight *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient gas=Result | | 5 | **call** | infinitive | a tiny spark from a switch *not said here* | | | | | for help | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent for help=Asset from outside=Source | 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:035-home-alone.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): no change. **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: [Home alone, the door and the phone, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/18/) - next →: [Home alone, the door and the phone, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/)