--- title: A family in Pennsylvania had no working smoke alarm; a fire started… — Thinking it through: the science behind home saf… · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Pennsylvania had no working smoke alarm; a fire started at night in the living room, and by the time they woke the stairs were full of smoke. Who acts: family, fire, Gases, stairs. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» of the everyday course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Thinking it through: the science behin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/) / 11 # Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 11 A family in Pennsylvania had no working smoke alarm; a fire started at night in the living room, and by the time they woke the stairs were full of smoke. **Who acts:** family, fire, Gases, stairs · **What happens:** have, start, wake, be · **To what, where:** working smoke alarm, living room This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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 (family, fire, Gases, stairs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:11 # text = A family in Pennsylvania had no working smoke alarm; a fire started at night in the living room, and by the time they woke the stairs were full of smoke. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 040-home-safety-reasoning.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 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 7 working working NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | a family in Pennsylvania | no working smoke alarm | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Patient | | 2 | **start** | past | a fire | | | the living room | night | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **wake** | past | Gases *= gas* | | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | past | the stairs | | | | | of smoke; full *property* | tree rules | 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:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:11`. **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: [Thinking it through: the science behin…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/10/) - next →: [Thinking it through: the science behin…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/)