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title: Hair catches fire easily, so keep it back and blow birthday candles… — Fire, candles and garage and garden tools · tree and pragmatics
description: Hair catches fire easily, so keep it back and blow birthday candles from a safe distance. Who acts: Hair. 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 7

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Hair catches fire easily, so keep it back and blow birthday candles from a safe distance.

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**Who acts:** Hair · **What happens:** catch, keep back, blow · **To what, where:** fire, birthday candles

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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 (Hair), 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:7
# text = Hair catches fire easily, so keep it back and blow birthday candles from a safe distance.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Hair	Hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **catch** | present | Hair | fire |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **keep back** | infinitive |  | Fire |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** | infinitive |  | birthday candles |  |  |  | from a safe distance | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent candle=Patient from distance=Co-Patient |

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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:7`.

**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 ×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/).

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