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title: Fireworks and sparklers can cause bad burns; a sparkler burns much h… — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics
description: Fireworks and sparklers can cause bad burns; a sparkler burns much hotter than a candle flame. Who acts: Fireworks, sparkler. 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 8

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Fireworks and sparklers can cause bad burns; a sparkler burns much hotter than a candle flame.

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**Who acts:** Fireworks, sparkler · **What happens:** cause, burn · **To what, where:** bad burns

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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 (Fireworks, sparkler), 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:8
# text = Fireworks and sparklers can cause bad burns; a sparkler burns much hotter than a candle flame.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sparklers	sparkler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	burns	burn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sparkler	sparkler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | can | Fireworks and sparklers | bad burns |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition burn=Patient |
| 2 | **burn** | present | a sparkler |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:265-holidays-of-the-region.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): 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/).

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