--- title: Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas with no colour and no smell, so h… — Thinking it through: the science behind home saf… · tree and pragmatics description: Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas with no colour and no smell, so homes with fuel-burning heaters or boilers need a carbon monoxide alarm. Who acts: Carbon monoxide, homes. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school --- [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/26/) [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/) / 26 # Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 26 Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas with no colour and no smell, so homes with fuel-burning heaters or boilers need a carbon monoxide alarm. **Who acts:** Carbon monoxide, homes · **What happens:** be, burn, need · **To what, where:** poisonous gas, monoxide alarm 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 (Carbon monoxide, homes), 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:26 # text = Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas with no colour and no smell, so homes with fuel-burning heaters or boilers need a carbon monoxide alarm. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 monoxide monoxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 15 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 19 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 amod _ _ 20 heaters heater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 boilers boiler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 monoxide monoxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Carbon monoxide | a poisonous gas | | | | with no colour and no smell | tree rules | | 2 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **need** | present | homes with burning heaters or boilers | a monoxide alarm | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot alarm=Theme | 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:26`. **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): R8-pos-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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/24/) - next →: [Thinking it through: the science behin…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/)