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title: Closing doors behind you slows the spread of fire and smoke. — Fire at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Closing doors behind you slows the spread of fire and smoke. Who acts: Closing. 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 24

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Closing doors behind you slows the spread of fire and smoke.

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**Who acts:** Closing · **What happens:** close, slow, spread · **To what, where:** doors, spread, fire

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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 (Closing), 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:24
# text = Closing doors behind you slows the spread of fire and smoke.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Closing	close	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	.	.	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 | **close** | gerund |  | doors |  |  |  | behind you | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **slow** | present | Closing | the spread of fire and smoke |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spread=Patient |
| 3 | **spread** |  |  | fire and smoke |  |  |  |  | nom spread «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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:034-fire-at-home.lesson:24`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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