---
title: A girl in England put her Christmas tree lights next to curtains; th… — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in England put her Christmas tree lights next to curtains; they overheated and started a small fire that filled the room with smoke. Who acts: girl, curtains, small fire. A sentence of the lesson «Holidays of the region» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/18/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Holidays of the region](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/) / 18

# Holidays of the region, sentence 18

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A girl in England put her Christmas tree lights next to curtains; they overheated and started a small fire that filled the room with smoke.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** girl, curtains, small fire · **What happens:** put, overheat, start, fill, light · **To what, where:** tree lights, small fire, room

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Holidays of the region» 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 (girl, curtains, small fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:18
# text = A girl in England put her Christmas tree lights next to curtains; they overheated and started a small fire that filled the room with smoke.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 265-holidays-of-the-region.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	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	next	next	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	overheated	overheat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | a girl in England | girl's tree lights |  |  |  | to curtains; next *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Goal |
| 2 | **overheat** | past | curtains *= curtain* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **start** | past | curtains *= curtain* *not said here* | a small fire |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fill** | past | a small fire | the room |  |  |  | with smoke | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with smoke=Instrument |
| 5 | **light** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:18`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Holidays of the region, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/17/)
- next →: [Holidays of the region, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/19/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/)

