--- title: A smoke alarm senses smoke and beeps very loudly; a short chirp ever… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics description: A smoke alarm senses smoke and beeps very loudly; a short chirp every so often means its battery is low, and it should be tested each month with its button; never take its battery out, but tell an adult to change it. Who acts: smoke alarm, short chirp, battery. 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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 (smoke alarm, short chirp, battery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:13 # text = A smoke alarm senses smoke and beeps very loudly; a short chirp every so often means its battery is low, and it should be tested each month with its button; never take its battery out, but tell an adult to change it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 014-electricity-at-home.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 3 det _ _ 2 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 senses sense VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 beeps beep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 chirp chirp NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 every every ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 28 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sense** | present | a smoke alarm | smoke | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus | | 2 | **beep** | present | a smoke alarm *not said here* | | | | | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | a short chirp | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | chirp's battery | | | | | low *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **test** | should · passive | | battery | | | month | with chirp's button | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **not** **take out** | infinitive | | chirp's battery | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **change** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | battery | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. 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