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title: Some trees and seeds need fire to open their cones and grow. — Fire: what it needs and how to put it out · tree and pragmatics
description: Some trees and seeds need fire to open their cones and grow. Who acts: trees. 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 17

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Some trees and seeds need fire to open their cones and grow.

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**Who acts:** trees · **What happens:** need, open, grow · **To what, where:** fire, cones

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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 (trees), 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:17
# text = Some trees and seeds need fire to open their cones and grow.
# 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	cones	cone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | some trees and seeds | fire |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | to-infinitive | some trees and seeds *not said here* | trees's cones |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cone=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | infinitive | some trees and seeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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.

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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:17`.

**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. **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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