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title: Water must never be used on an electrical fire, because water carrie… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it out · tree and pragmatics
description: Water must never be used on an electrical fire, because water carries electricity; carbon dioxide extinguishers push the oxygen away instead. Who acts: water, dioxide extinguishers. A sentence of the lesson «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school 
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# Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 9

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Water must never be used on an electrical fire, because water carries electricity; carbon dioxide extinguishers push the oxygen away instead.

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**Who acts:** water, dioxide extinguishers · **What happens:** not use, carry, push away · **To what, where:** Water, electrical fire, electricity, oxygen

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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 (water, dioxide extinguishers), 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:9
# text = Water must never be used on an electrical fire, because water carries electricity; carbon dioxide extinguishers push the oxygen away 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	electrical	electrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	extinguishers	extinguisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **use** | must · passive |  | Water |  | a electrical fire |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | present | water | electricity |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |
| 3 | **push away** | present | dioxide extinguishers | the oxygen |  |  |  | away, instead *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=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:9`.

**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): R7-rel-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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