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title: A boy in Canada ran around the campfire playing tag and tripped; his… — Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and ra… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Canada ran around the campfire playing tag and tripped; his hand landed in the embers and he needed treatment for burns for weeks. Who acts: boy, hand. A sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 25

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A boy in Canada ran around the campfire playing tag and tripped; his hand landed in the embers and he needed treatment for burns for weeks.

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**Who acts:** boy, hand · **What happens:** run, play, trip, land, need · **To what, where:** campfire, tag, embers, treatment

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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 (boy, hand), 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:25
# text = A boy in Canada ran around the campfire playing tag and tripped; his hand landed in the embers and he needed treatment for burns for weeks.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	campfire	campfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl
10	tag	tag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tripped	trip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	burns	burn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **run** | past | a boy in Canada |  |  | the campfire |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around campfire=Trajectory |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | a boy in Canada *not said here* | tag |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tag=Theme |
| 3 | **trip** | past | a boy in Canada *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **land** | past | boy's hand |  |  | the embers |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in ember=Destination |
| 5 | **need** | past | hand | treatment |  |  | week | for burns | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treatment=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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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