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title: Most people who die in house fires are killed by smoke, not flames,… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it out · tree and pragmatics
description: Most people who die in house fires are killed by smoke, not flames, often while asleep. Who acts: Most people, smoke. A sentence of the lesson «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 11

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Most people who die in house fires are killed by smoke, not flames, often while asleep.

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**Who acts:** Most people, smoke · **What happens:** die, kill · **To what, where:** Most people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry 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 (Most people, smoke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:012-fire-what-it-needs.lesson:11
# text = Most people who die in house fires are killed by smoke, not flames, often while asleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 012-fire-what-it-needs.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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | Most people |  |  |  |  | in house fires | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in fire=Attribute |
| 2 | **kill** | present · passive | smoke and flames | Most people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:chemistry:012-fire-what-it-needs.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): no change. **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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