--- title: A girl in Ohio fell asleep with a candle burning on her shelf; it li… — Fire, candles and garage and garden tools · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Ohio fell asleep with a candle burning on her shelf; it lit the curtains, and the family escaped only because the smoke alarm went off. Who acts: girl, candle, pool, family. 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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 (girl, candle, pool, family), 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:20 # text = A girl in Ohio fell asleep with a candle burning on her shelf; it lit the curtains, and the family escaped only because the smoke alarm went off. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lit light VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 curtains curtain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 24 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 30 off off ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | a girl in Ohio | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **burn** | gerund | a candle *not said here* | | | girl's shelf | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shelf=Location | | 3 | **light** | past | pool | the curtains | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Product | | 4 | **escape** | past | the family | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go off** | past | the smoke alarm | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:20`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Fire, candles and garage and garden to…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/19/) - next →: [Fire, candles and garage and garden to…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/)