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title: Why do firefighters tell people never to go back into a burning house? — Fire, candles and garage and garden to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do firefighters tell people never to go back into a burning house? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 115 «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

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Why do firefighters tell people never to go back into a burning house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** firefighters · **What happens:** tell, not go back, burn · **To what, where:** people, burning house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 115 «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t2:1
# text = Why do firefighters tell people never to go back into a burning house?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | firefighters |  | people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **go back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a burning house |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Firefighters want to save the things themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t2:o1:1
# text = Firefighters want to save the things themselves
1	Firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Firefighters |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Firefighters *not said here* | the things |  |  |  | Firefighters *= firefighter* *obl:unmarked* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Houses get locked when there is a fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t2:o2:1
# text = Houses get locked when there is a fire
1	Houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | present · passive |  | Houses |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | present | a fire |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Smoke is only dangerous outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t2:o3:1
# text = Smoke is only dangerous outside
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Smoke |  |  |  |  | dangerous, outside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
People die going back inside for things or pets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t2:o4:1
# text = People die going back inside for things or pets
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go back** | gerund | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for things or pets; inside *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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