--- title: A family in California waited too long to leave when a wildfire came… — Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons · tree and pragmatics description: A family in California waited too long to leave when a wildfire came near; the smoke and flames blocked the road, and firefighters had to lead them out. Who acts: family, wildfire, smoke, firefighters. 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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 (family, wildfire, smoke, firefighters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons.lesson:22 # text = A family in California waited too long to leave when a wildfire came near; the smoke and flames blocked the road, and firefighters had to lead them out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:xcomp 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wildfire wildfire NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 14 near near ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 flames flame NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 blocked block VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 firefighters firefighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past | a family in California | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | a family in California *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | a wildfire | | | | | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **block** | past | the smoke and flames | the road | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | firefighters | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lead out** | to-infinitive | firefighters *not said here* | firefighters *= firefighter* | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons.lesson:22`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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: [Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the s…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons/21/) - next →: [Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the s…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons/)