--- title: Wildfires spread fast in dry, hot, windy weather: dry plants are fue… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it out · tree and pragmatics description: Wildfires spread fast in dry, hot, windy weather: dry plants are fuel, heat dries the next plants, and wind brings fresh oxygen; firefighters cut gaps to remove fuel. Who acts: Wildfires, dry plants, heat, wind. A sentence of the lesson «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Fire: what it needs and how to put it…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/) / 16 # Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 16 Wildfires spread fast in dry, hot, windy weather: dry plants are fuel, heat dries the next plants, and wind brings fresh oxygen; firefighters cut gaps to remove fuel. **Who acts:** Wildfires, dry plants, heat, wind, firefighters · **What happens:** spread, be, dry, bring, cut, remove · **To what, where:** dry hot windy weather, fuel, next plants, fresh oxygen, gaps 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 (Wildfires, dry plants, heat, wind), 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:16 # text = Wildfires spread fast in dry, hot, windy weather: dry plants are fuel, heat dries the next plants, and wind brings fresh oxygen; firefighters cut gaps to remove fuel. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Wildfires wildfire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 5 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 windy windy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 firefighters firefighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 remove remove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:xcomp 34 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | Wildfires | | | dry hot windy weather | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | dry plants | fuel | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **dry** | present | heat | the next plants | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient plant=Result | | 4 | **bring** | present | wind | fresh oxygen | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | | 5 | **cut** | present | firefighters | gaps | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gap=Product | | 6 | **remove** | to-infinitive | firefighters *not said here* | fuel | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chemistry:012-fire-what-it-needs.lesson:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Fire: what it needs and how to put it…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/15/) - next →: [Fire: what it needs and how to put it…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/)