--- title: A fire blanket smothers a small fire by cutting off oxygen; if your… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it out · tree and pragmatics description: A fire blanket smothers a small fire by cutting off oxygen; if your own clothes catch fire, the rule is "stop, drop and roll". Who acts: fire blanket, own clothes, rule. 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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 (fire blanket, own clothes, rule), 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:7 # text = A fire blanket smothers a small fire by cutting off oxygen; if your own clothes catch fire, the rule is "stop, drop and roll". # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 smothers smother VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ _ 10 off off ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 17 nsubj _ _ 17 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 18 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 roll roll NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smother** | present | a fire blanket | a small fire | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cut off** | gerund | a fire blanket *not said here* | oxygen | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector oxygen=Eventuality | | 3 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your own clothes | fire | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the rule | | | | | stop *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **drop** *in a quote* | infinitive | the rule *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:7`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Fire: what it needs and how to put it…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/6/) - next →: [Fire: what it needs and how to put it…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/)