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title: Clothes or towels on heaters can catch fire. — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling · tree and pragmatics
description: Clothes or towels on heaters can catch fire. Who acts: Clothes. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 21

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Clothes or towels on heaters can catch fire.

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**Who acts:** Clothes · **What happens:** catch · **To what, where:** fire

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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 (Clothes), 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:21
# text = Clothes or towels on heaters can catch fire.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	towels	towel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heaters	heater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | can | Clothes on heaters or towels | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |

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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:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:21`.

**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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