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title: Flammable means it catches fire easily, shown by a flame symbol; cor… — Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals · tree and pragmatics
description: Flammable means it catches fire easily, shown by a flame symbol; corrosive means it can burn skin and eat away surfaces; toxic means poisonous. Who acts: Flammable, grown, corrosive, toxic. A sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary scho
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# Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals, sentence 12

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Flammable means it catches fire easily, shown by a flame symbol; corrosive means it can burn skin and eat away surfaces; toxic means poisonous.

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**Who acts:** Flammable, grown, corrosive, toxic · **What happens:** mean, catch, show, burn, eat away · **To what, where:** fire, skin, surfaces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday 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 (Flammable, grown, corrosive, toxic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.lesson:12
# text = Flammable means it catches fire easily, shown by a flame symbol; corrosive means it can burn skin and eat away surfaces; toxic means poisonous.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals.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 ×2
1	Flammable	flammable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	corrosive	corrosive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	surfaces	surface	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	toxic	toxic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nsubj	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Flammable |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **catch** | present | grown | fire |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | participle | grown *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a flame symbol | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | corrosive |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **burn** | can | grown | skin |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 6 | **eat away** | infinitive | grown *not said here* | surfaces |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Patient |
| 7 | **mean** | present | toxic |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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): R5-strong ×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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