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title: Water puts out fires mainly by cooling, because it soaks up a lot of… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it out · tree and pragmatics
description: Water puts out fires mainly by cooling, because it soaks up a lot of heat as it turns to steam. Who acts: Water. 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 15

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Water puts out fires mainly by cooling, because it soaks up a lot of heat as it turns to steam.

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**Who acts:** Water · **What happens:** put out, soak up, turn · **To what, where:** fires, lot, steam

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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 (Water), 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:15
# text = Water puts out fires mainly by cooling, because it soaks up a lot of heat as it turns to steam.
# 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	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cooling	cooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | present | Water | fires |  |  |  | by cooling | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fire=Theme by cooling=Destination |
| 2 | **soak up** | present | water | a lot of heat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lot=Source |
| 3 | **turn** | present | water |  |  | steam |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory |

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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:15`.

**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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