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title: You stay outside a safe circle round it, keep burning sticks in it,… — Campfires, cold nights and rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: You stay outside a safe circle round it, keep burning sticks in it, and never light one when there is a fire ban, because in dry weather one spark can start a wildfire. Who acts: You, fire ban, one spark. A sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» of the everyday course of Mova's p
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# Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 1

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You stay outside a safe circle round it, keep burning sticks in it, and never light one when there is a fire ban, because in dry weather one spark can start a wildfire.

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**Who acts:** You, fire ban, one spark · **What happens:** stay, keep, burn, not light, be, start · **To what, where:** safe circle, sticks, circle, one, wildfire, dry weather

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» 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 (You, fire ban, one spark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:1
# text = You stay outside a safe circle round it, keep burning sticks in it, and never light one when there is a fire ban, because in dry weather one spark can start a wildfire.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 231-campfires-and-rivers.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wildfire	wildfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **stay** | present | You | a safe circle |  |  |  | round circle; outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund | You *not said here* | sticks |  | circle |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **light** | infinitive | You *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product |
| 5 | **be** | present | a fire ban |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **start** | can | one spark | a wildfire |  | dry weather |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wildfire=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:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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