--- title: A boy in Michigan ran back into his burning house to get his video g… — Fire at home · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: boy, smoke, firefighters. A sentence of the lesson «Fire at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p --- [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/11/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/) / 11 # Fire at home, sentence 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. **Who acts:** boy, smoke, firefighters · **What happens:** run back, burn, get, make, fall down, have · **To what, where:** burning house, video game, boy This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire 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 (boy, smoke, firefighters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:034-fire-at-home.lesson:11 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 034-fire-at-home.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 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Michigan Michigan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 down down ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 firefighters firefighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run back** | past | a boy in Michigan | | | | | into boy's burning house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result | | 2 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | a boy in Michigan *not said here* | boy's video game | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | past | the smoke | boy | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fall down** | infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | firefighters | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | firefighters *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | 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. **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:034-fire-at-home.lesson:11`. **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/). - ← previous: [Fire at home, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/10/) - next →: [Fire at home, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/)