--- title: Fire grows very fast: a candle flame that touches a curtain can fill… — Fire, candles and garage and garden tools · tree and pragmatics description: Fire grows very fast: a candle flame that touches a curtain can fill a room with smoke in a few minutes, which is why matches, lighters and candles are grown-ups' tools and are never left alone. Who acts: Fire, candle flame, matches. 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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, candle flame, matches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:0 # text = Fire grows very fast: a candle flame that touches a curtain can fill a room with smoke in a few minutes, which is why matches, lighters and candles are grown-ups' tools and are never left alone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 curtain curtain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 parataxis _ _ 27 matches match NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 lighters lighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 31 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 33 grown grow NOUN NN _ 35 compound _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 35 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 ' 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=37:cc 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 40 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 42 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Fire | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **touch** | present | a candle flame | a curtain | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme curtain=Co-Theme | | 3 | **fill** | can | a candle flame | a room | | | minute | with smoke | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with smoke=Instrument | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | matches and lighters and candles | grown ups's tools | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **leave** | present · passive | matches and lighters and candles *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | 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:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, 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: [Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/20/) - next →: [Fire, candles and garage and garden to…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/)