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title: A boy in Ohio lit a firework and went back to it when it did not go… — Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ohio lit a firework and went back to it when it did not go off; it exploded in his hand and he lost two fingers. Who acts: boy, damp. A sentence of the lesson «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom, sentence 17

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A boy in Ohio lit a firework and went back to it when it did not go off; it exploded in his hand and he lost two fingers.

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**Who acts:** boy, damp · **What happens:** light, go back, not go off, explode, lose · **To what, where:** firework, damp, hand, two fingers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» 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 (boy, damp), 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:17
# text = A boy in Ohio lit a firework and went back to it when it did not go off; it exploded in his hand and he lost two fingers.
# 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): no change
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	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	lit	light	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	firework	firework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	exploded	explode	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | past | a boy in Ohio | a firework |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Product |
| 2 | **go back** | past | a boy in Ohio *not said here* |  | damp |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result |
| 3 | **not** **go off** | past · do-support | damp |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **explode** | past | damp |  |  | boy's hand |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
| 5 | **lose** | past | boy | two fingers |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Eventuality |

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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:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.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): 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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