--- title: The right method matters: water on a burning chip pan turns to steam… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it out · tree and pragmatics description: The right method matters: water on a burning chip pan turns to steam in an instant and throws burning oil everywhere, so a lid is used instead. Who acts: right method, water. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right method, 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:2 # text = The right method matters: water on a burning chip pan turns to steam in an instant and throws burning oil everywhere, so a lid is used instead. # 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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 method method NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 burning burning NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 chip chip NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 14 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:xcomp 21 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obj 22 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 29 instead instead ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present | the right method | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **turn** | present | water on a chip pan | | | a instant | | to steam | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to steam=Source in instant=Trajectory | | 3 | **throw** | present | water on a chip pan *not said here* | burning oil | | | | everywhere *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme | | 4 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **use** | present · passive | | a lid | | | | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:2`. **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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/1/) - next →: [Fire: what it needs and how to put it…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/)