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title: Children's job in a fire is not to fight it but to get out fast and… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it out · tree and pragmatics
description: Children's job in a fire is not to fight it but to get out fast and tell a grown-up. Who acts: job, Children. 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 4

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Children's job in a fire is not to fight it but to get out fast and tell a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** job, Children · **What happens:** not be, get out, tell, job · **To what, where:** grown, fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (job, Children), 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:4
# text = Children's job in a fire is not to fight it but to get out fast and tell a grown-up.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
20	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Children's job in a fire |  |  |  |  | fight *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get out** | to-infinitive | Children's job in a fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast, out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Children's job in a fire *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient |
| 4 | **job** |  | Children |  |  | a fire |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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:4`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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