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title: Fireworks and sparklers cause serious burns every year; fireworks ar… — Colours of fire: fireworks · tree and pragmatics
description: Fireworks and sparklers cause serious burns every year; fireworks are only for trained adults, and used sparklers go into a bucket of water. Who acts: Fireworks, used sparklers. A sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 19

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Fireworks and sparklers cause serious burns every year; fireworks are only for trained adults, and used sparklers go into a bucket of water.

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**Who acts:** Fireworks, used sparklers · **What happens:** cause, train, be, use, go · **To what, where:** serious burns, bucket

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» 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 (Fireworks, used sparklers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.lesson:19
# text = Fireworks and sparklers cause serious burns every year; fireworks are only for trained adults, and used sparklers go into a bucket of water.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sparklers	sparkler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	burns	burn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	sparklers	sparkler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | Fireworks and sparklers | serious burns |  |  | year |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition burn=Patient |
| 2 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | fireworks |  |  |  |  | for trained adults | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | present | used sparklers |  |  | a bucket of water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bucket=Initial\_Location |

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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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**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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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.

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