--- title: Toast marshmallows on a long stick at the side of the flames, and bl… — Campfires, cold nights and rivers · tree and pragmatics description: Toast marshmallows on a long stick at the side of the flames, and blow one out if it catches fire, because burning sugar sticks to skin. Who acts: you, side, burning sugar. 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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 (you, side, burning sugar), 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:10 # text = Toast marshmallows on a long stick at the side of the flames, and blow one out if it catches fire, because burning sugar sticks to skin. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toast toast VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 marshmallows marshmallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 flames flame NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 blow blow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obj _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound:prt 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 21 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:mark 24 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 amod _ _ 25 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sticks stick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 28 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **toast** | imperative | you *not said here* | marshmallows | | | | at the side of the flames; on a long stick | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent marshmallow=Patient on stick=Instrument | | 2 | **blow out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 3 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | side | fire | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 4 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stick** | present | burning sugar | | | | | to skin | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to skin=Co-Patient | 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:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:10`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Campfires, cold nights and rivers, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/9/) - next →: [Campfires, cold nights and rivers, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/231-campfires-and-rivers/)