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title: Roast marshmallows with a long stick or fork, at the side of the fla… — Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and ra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Roast marshmallows with a long stick or fork, at the side of the flames, and blow the marshmallow out if it catches fire. Who acts: you, side. A sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 13

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Roast marshmallows with a long stick or fork, at the side of the flames, and blow the marshmallow out if it catches fire.

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**Who acts:** you, side · **What happens:** roast, blow out, catch · **To what, where:** marshmallows, side, marshmallow, fire

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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 (you, side), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:13
# text = Roast marshmallows with a long stick or fork, at the side of the flames, and blow the marshmallow out if it catches fire.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.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
1	Roast	roast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	marshmallows	marshmallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	marshmallow	marshmallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **roast** | imperative | you *not said here* | marshmallows |  | the side of the flames |  | with a long stick or fork | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent marshmallow=Patient with stick=Instrument |
| 2 | **blow out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the marshmallow |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent marshmallow=Patient |
| 3 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | side | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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