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title: A girl in Melbourne whose house fills with smoke leaves at once, wit… — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Melbourne whose house fills with smoke leaves at once, without stopping for her tablet or her cat, and tells the firefighters the cat is inside. Who acts: house, girl, cat. A sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» of the everyday course of Mova's prim
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# Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home, sentence 7

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A girl in Melbourne whose house fills with smoke leaves at once, without stopping for her tablet or her cat, and tells the firefighters the cat is inside.

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**Who acts:** house, girl, cat · **What happens:** fill, leave, stop, tell, be · **To what, where:** firefighters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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 (house, girl, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:7
# text = A girl in Melbourne whose house fills with smoke leaves at once, without stopping for her tablet or her cat, and tells the firefighters the cat is inside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	24	ccomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **fill** | present | house |  |  |  |  | with smoke | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with smoke=Instrument |
| 2 | **leave** | present | a girl in Melbourne |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location |
| 3 | **stop** | gerund | a girl in Melbourne *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for house's tablet or house's cat | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a girl in Melbourne *not said here* |  | the firefighters |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent firefighter=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present | the cat |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | tree rules |

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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:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:7`.

**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, R8-pos-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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