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title: Holiday decorations, candles and lights cause many house fires every… — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics
description: Holiday decorations, candles and lights cause many house fires every year. Who acts: Holiday decorations. A sentence of the lesson «Holidays of the region» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Holidays of the region, sentence 20

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Holiday decorations, candles and lights cause many house fires every year.

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**Who acts:** Holiday decorations · **What happens:** cause · **To what, where:** many house fires

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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 (Holiday decorations), 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:20
# text = Holiday decorations, candles and lights cause many house fires every year.
# 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): no change
1	Holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	decorations	decoration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **cause** | present | Holiday decorations and candles and lights | many house fires |  |  | year |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient |

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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:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:20`.

**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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