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title: Christmas decorations are kept away from fireplaces and candles beca… — Bedroom, living room and manners at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Christmas decorations are kept away from fireplaces and candles because they catch fire. Who acts: decorations. A sentence of the lesson «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bedroom, living room and manners at home, sentence 7

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Christmas decorations are kept away from fireplaces and candles because they catch fire.

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**Who acts:** decorations · **What happens:** keep away, catch · **To what, where:** Christmas decorations, fireplaces, fire

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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 (decorations), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners.lesson:7
# text = Christmas decorations are kept away from fireplaces and candles because they catch fire.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners.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	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	decorations	decoration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fireplaces	fireplace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **keep away** | present · passive |  | Christmas decorations |  | fireplaces and candles |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from fireplace=Eventuality |
| 2 | **catch** | present | decorations *= decoration* | 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:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners.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): 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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