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title: Hidden embers can stay hot for many hours and start a wildfire. — Campfires, cold nights and rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: Hidden embers can stay hot for many hours and start a wildfire. Who acts: Hidden embers. 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 12

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Hidden embers can stay hot for many hours and start a wildfire.

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**Who acts:** Hidden embers · **What happens:** stay, start · **To what, where:** wildfire

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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 (Hidden embers), 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:12
# text = Hidden embers can stay hot for many hours and 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
10	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wildfire	wildfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | can | Hidden embers |  |  |  | hour | hot *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | Hidden embers *not said here* | a wildfire |  |  |  |  | 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:12`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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