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title: Candles left burning near curtains or while people sleep are a commo… — Fire, candles and garage and garden tools · tree and pragmatics
description: Candles left burning near curtains or while people sleep are a common cause of house fires. Who acts: Candles, people. A sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fire, candles and garage and garden tools, sentence 23

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Candles left burning near curtains or while people sleep are a common cause of house fires.

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**Who acts:** Candles, people · **What happens:** leave, burn, sleep, be · **To what, where:** Candles, curtains, common cause

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» 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 (Candles, people), 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:23
# text = Candles left burning near curtains or while people sleep are a common cause of house fires.
# 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): no change
1	Candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
3	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | Candles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | Candles *not said here* |  |  | curtains |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near curtain=Location |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Candles | a common cause |  |  |  | of house fires | tree rules |

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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:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:23`.

**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): no change. **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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