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title: Put a fire out by drowning it with water, stirring, and drowning aga… — Campfires, cold nights and rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: Put a fire out by drowning it with water, stirring, and drowning again until it is cold to the touch. Who acts: you, fire. A sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 11

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Put a fire out by drowning it with water, stirring, and drowning again until it is cold to the touch.

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**Who acts:** you, fire · **What happens:** put out, drown, stir, be · **To what, where:** fire

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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), 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:11
# text = Put a fire out by drowning it with water, stirring, and drowning again until it is cold to the touch.
# 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 ×1
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | imperative | you *not said here* | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal |
| 2 | **drown** | gerund | you *not said here* | fire |  |  |  | with water | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 3 | **stir** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **drown** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | fire |  |  |  |  | to the touch; cold *property* | tree rules |

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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:11`.

**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 ×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/).

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