--- title: Fire at home — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Fire at home», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A fire in a home grows very fast: in a few minutes a whole room can fill with thick, hot, poisonous smoke. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Fire at home # Fire at home Lesson 34 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 26 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/34-fire-at-home/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/0/) — A fire in a home grows very fast: in a few minutes a whole room can fill with thick, hot, poisonous smoke. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/1/) — You have very little time, so the plan is simple: get out, stay out and call for help. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/2/) — Smoke is the biggest danger. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/3/) — It is hot and lighter than the cool air, so it rises and gathers at the ceiling first. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/4/) — The cleanest air is near the floor, which is why you get low and crawl under the smoke. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/5/) — A smoke alarm smells the smoke before you do and wakes you, even at night. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/6/) — Homes need one on every level and near the bedrooms, tested every month. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/7/) — For example, if a girl wakes to the alarm and her bedroom door feels hot, the fire may be right behind it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/8/) — She keeps it shut and uses her second way out, such as a window, then goes to the family's meeting place outside. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/9/) — If your clothes catch fire, running only feeds the flames with air. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/10/) — Instead you stop, drop to the ground, cover your face with your hands and roll until the fire is out. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/11/) — A boy in Michigan ran back into his burning house to get his video game; the smoke made him fall down, and firefighters had to carry him out. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/12/) — A mum in Leeds threw water on a pan of burning oil; the water turned to steam and blew flaming oil across the kitchen, and she was burnt on the arms. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/13/) — A small fire can fill a home with smoke in just a few minutes. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/14/) — Most people who die in house fires are killed by smoke, not by the flames. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/15/) — Hot smoke rises, so the cleanest air in a smoky room is near the floor. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/16/) — Smoke alarms should be on every level of a home and tested every month. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/17/) — Before opening a door in a fire, you feel it with the back of your hand; if it is hot, you use another way out. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/18/) — The back of the hand feels heat well, and your palms stay safe for crawling. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/19/) — Every family should have an escape plan with two ways out of each room and a meeting place outside, where everyone can be counted so nobody goes back in to look for someone. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/20/) — Once you are out of a burning building, you never go back inside, not even for a pet or a toy. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/21/) — You call the emergency number from outside: 911 in the USA and Canada, 999 in the UK and Ireland, 000 in Australia and 111 in New Zealand. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/22/) — If your clothes catch fire, you stop, drop, cover your face and roll; rolling smothers the flames, putting them out by cutting off their air. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/23/) — You should never hide under a bed or in a cupboard during a fire, because firefighters may not find you. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/24/) — Closing doors behind you slows the spread of fire and smoke. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/25/) — Water on burning oil makes the fire explode outwards. - ← previous: [Medicines and cleaning products](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/) - next →: [Home alone, the door and the phone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)