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title: Smoke rises, so the air near the floor is cleaner: crawl low under s… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it out · tree and pragmatics
description: Smoke rises, so the air near the floor is cleaner: crawl low under smoke; feel a door with the back of your hand before opening it, and if it is hot, do not open it. Who acts: Smoke, air, you. A sentence of the lesson «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry course of Mova's prim
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# Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 13

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Smoke rises, so the air near the floor is cleaner: crawl low under smoke; feel a door with the back of your hand before opening it, and if it is hot, do not open it.

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**Who acts:** Smoke, air, you · **What happens:** rise, be, crawl, feel, open, not open · **To what, where:** smoke, door

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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 (Smoke, air, you), 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:13
# text = Smoke rises, so the air near the floor is cleaner: crawl low under smoke; feel a door with the back of your hand before opening it, and if it is hot, do not open it.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	cleaner	cleaner	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
14	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
18	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	advcl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | Smoke |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the air near the floor |  |  |  |  | cleaner *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **crawl** | infinitive |  |  |  | smoke |  | low *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under smoke=Trajectory |
| 4 | **feel** | imperative | you *not said here* | a door |  |  |  | with the back of your hand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 5 | **open** | gerund | you *not said here* | smoke |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | air |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **open** | infinitive · do-support |  | smoke |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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:13`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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