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title: A teenager in Australia held a lit firework in his hand; it went off… — Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen met… · tree and pragmatics
description: A teenager in Australia held a lit firework in his hand; it went off too soon and he lost part of a finger. Who acts: teenager, bottle. A sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» of the everyday cour
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# Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks, sentence 21

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A teenager in Australia held a lit firework in his hand; it went off too soon and he lost part of a finger.

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**Who acts:** teenager, bottle · **What happens:** hold, go off, lose · **To what, where:** lit firework, hand, part

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» 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 (teenager, bottle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.lesson:21
# text = A teenager in Australia held a lit firework in his hand; it went off too soon and he lost part of a finger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teenager	teenager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lit	lit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	firework	firework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **hold** | past | a teenager in Australia | a lit firework |  | teenager's hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent firework=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **go off** | past | bottle |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past | teenager | part of a finger |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |

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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:322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.lesson:21`.

**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 ×1, 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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