--- title: A lid on a burning pan cuts off the oxygen; water must never be thro… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it out · tree and pragmatics description: A lid on a burning pan cuts off the oxygen; water must never be thrown on burning oil, because it turns to steam and throws the oil out in a fireball. Who acts: lid, 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 (lid, 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:6 # text = A lid on a burning pan cuts off the oxygen; water must never be thrown on burning oil, because it turns to steam and throws the oil out in a fireball. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 burning burning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound 7 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:VBG:_ 19 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 27 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 fireball fireball NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut off** | present | a lid a pan | the oxygen | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector oxygen=Eventuality | | 2 | **not** **throw** | must · passive | | water | | burning oil | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on oil=Destination | | 3 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | present | water | | | steam | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory | | 5 | **throw out** | present | water *not said here* | the oil | | a fireball | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent oil=Theme in fireball=Destination | 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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Fire: what it needs and how to put it…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/5/) - next →: [Fire: what it needs and how to put it…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/)