--- title: A boy in Leeds put a towel over a heater to dry it; it started to bu… — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds put a towel over a heater to dry it; it started to burn and filled the room with smoke. Who acts: boy, towel. 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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 (boy, towel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Leeds put a towel over a heater to dry it; it started to burn and filled the room with smoke. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 heater heater NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 dry dry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . 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 | **put** | past | a boy in Leeds | a towel | | a heater | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towel=Theme over heater=Destination | | 2 | **dry** | to-infinitive | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | towel | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | | 3 | **start** | past | towel | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **burn** | to-infinitive | towel *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fill** | past | towel *not said here* | the room | | | | with smoke | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with smoke=Instrument | 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:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:17`. **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): 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: [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/16/) - next →: [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/)