--- title: Matches and lighters are tools for grown-ups, because fires start fa… — Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics description: Matches and lighters are tools for grown-ups, because fires start fast; if you find them, you give them to a grown-up. Who acts: Matches, fires, you. 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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 (Matches, fires, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.lesson:0 # text = Matches and lighters are tools for grown-ups, because fires start fast; if you find them, you give them to a grown-up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Matches match NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 lighters lighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 14 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 26 grown grown NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 28 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Matches and lighters | tools | | | | for grown ups | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **start** | present | fires | | | | | fast *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | fires *= fire* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 5 | **give** | present | you | fires *= fire* | grown | | | a up *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to grown=Recipient | 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:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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