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title: When there is a fire ban, do not light any fire at all, because one… — Campfires, cold nights and rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: When there is a fire ban, do not light any fire at all, because one spark can start a wildfire. Who acts: fire ban, you, one spark. 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 8

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When there is a fire ban, do not light any fire at all, because one spark can start a wildfire.

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**Who acts:** fire ban, you, one spark · **What happens:** be, not light, start · **To what, where:** fire, all, 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 (fire ban, you, 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:8
# text = When there is a fire ban, do not light any fire at all, because 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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	light	light	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wildfire	wildfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a fire ban |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **light** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | any fire |  | all |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 3 | **start** | can | one spark | 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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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