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title: A gas boiler can leak carbon monoxide, a poison gas you cannot see o… — Heating, water pipes and drains · tree and pragmatics
description: A gas boiler can leak carbon monoxide, a poison gas you cannot see or smell, so every home with one needs a carbon monoxide alarm. Who acts: gas boiler, you, home. A sentence of the lesson «Heating, water pipes and drains» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Heating, water pipes and drains, sentence 6

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A gas boiler can leak carbon monoxide, a poison gas you cannot see or smell, so every home with one needs a carbon monoxide alarm.

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**Who acts:** gas boiler, you, home · **What happens:** leak, not see, smell, need · **To what, where:** carbon monoxide, poison gas, monoxide alarm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Heating, water pipes and drains» of the technology 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 (gas boiler, you, home), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:6
# text = A gas boiler can leak carbon monoxide, a poison gas you cannot see or smell, so every home with one needs a carbon monoxide alarm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boiler	boiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	leak	leak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leak** | can | a gas boiler | carbon monoxide |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location monoxide=Source |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | you | a poison gas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gas=Stimulus |
| 3 | **smell** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | present | every home with one | a monoxide alarm |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot alarm=Theme |

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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:technology:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:6`.

**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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