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title: Water on burning oil makes the fire explode outwards. — Fire at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Water on burning oil makes the fire explode outwards. Who acts: Water, 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 25

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Water on burning oil makes the fire explode outwards.

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**Who acts:** Water, fire · **What happens:** burn, make, explode · **To what, where:** 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 (Water, 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:25
# text = Water on burning oil makes the fire explode outwards.
# 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	Water	Water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	amod	_	_
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	makes	make	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	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	explode	explode	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	outwards	outwards	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	.	.	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 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | Water on burning oil | the fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **explode** | infinitive | the fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outwards *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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