--- title: If your clothes catch fire, you stop, drop, cover your face and roll… — Fire at home · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: clothes, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes, you), 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:22 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:mark 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 nsubj _ _ 19 smothers smother VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 flames flame NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 by by SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your clothes | fire | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | present | you | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **drop** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cover** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your face | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination | | 5 | **roll** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **roll** | gerund | | the flames | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Agent | | 7 | **smother** | present | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **put out** | gerund | | flames *= flame* | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | | 9 | **cut off** | gerund | | clothes's air | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector air=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:22`. **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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Fire at home, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/21/) - next →: [Fire at home, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/)