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title: A camper in Australia poured petrol on a slow campfire; the flames b… — Campfires, cold nights and rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: A camper in Australia poured petrol on a slow campfire; the flames burst up into his face and he was badly burned. Who acts: camper, flames. 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 eve
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# Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 21

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A camper in Australia poured petrol on a slow campfire; the flames burst up into his face and he was badly burned.

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**Who acts:** camper, flames · **What happens:** pour, burst up, burn · **To what, where:** petrol, slow campfire, face, camper

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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 (camper, flames), 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:21
# text = A camper in Australia poured petrol on a slow campfire; the flames burst up into his face and he was badly burned.
# 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, R2-punct-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	camper	camper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	campfire	campfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **pour** | past | a camper in Australia | petrol |  | a slow campfire |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petrol=Patient |
| 2 | **burst up** | past | the flames |  |  | camper's face |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | past · passive |  | camper |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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:21`.

**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, R2-punct-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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