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title: The gas used in homes is given a smell like rotten eggs, so that a l… — Home alone, the door and the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: The gas used in homes is given a smell like rotten eggs, so that a leak is easy to notice. Who acts: leak. A sentence of the lesson «Home alone, the door and the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Home alone, the door and the phone, sentence 20

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The gas used in homes is given a smell like rotten eggs, so that a leak is easy to notice.

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**Who acts:** leak · **What happens:** use, give, be, notice · **To what, where:** gas, homes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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 (leak), 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:20
# text = The gas used in homes is given a smell like rotten eggs, so that a leak is easy to notice.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	leak	leak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | the gas *not said here* |  | homes |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present · passive |  | the gas |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient smell=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | a leak |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **notice** | to-infinitive | a leak *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:035-home-alone.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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