--- title: A girl in Wales left a candle burning by the curtains and went to be… — Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Wales left a candle burning by the curtains and went to bed; the curtains caught fire, and only the smoke alarm woke the family in time to get out. Who acts: girl, candle, curtains, smoke alarm. 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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 (girl, candle, curtains, smoke alarm), 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:18 # text = A girl in Wales left a candle burning by the curtains and went to bed; the curtains caught fire, and only the smoke alarm woke the family in time to get out. # 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 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 left leave 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 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 curtains curtain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 curtains curtain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 out out ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . 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 | **leave** | past | a girl in Wales | a candle | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme | | 2 | **burn** | gerund | a candle *not said here* | | | | | by the curtains | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by curtain=Location | | 3 | **go** | past | a girl in Wales *not said here* | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **catch** | past | the curtains | fire | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 5 | **wake** | past | the smoke alarm | the family | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent family=Patient | | 6 | **get out** | to-infinitive | the smoke alarm *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:18`. **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/). - ← previous: [Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and th…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom/17/) - next →: [Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and th…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom/)