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title: A small fire can fill a home with smoke in just a few minutes. — Fire at home · tree and pragmatics
description: A small fire can fill a home with smoke in just a few minutes. Who acts: small fire. A sentence of the lesson «Fire at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fire at home, sentence 13

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A small fire can fill a home with smoke in just a few minutes.

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**Who acts:** small fire · **What happens:** fill · **To what, where:** home

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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 (small fire), 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:13
# text = A small fire can fill a home with smoke in just a few minutes.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **fill** | can | a small fire | a home |  |  | minute | with smoke | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent home=Patient with smoke=Instrument |

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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): no change. **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.

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