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title: If your clothes catch fire, running only feeds the flames with air. — Fire at home · tree and pragmatics
description: If your clothes catch fire, running only feeds the flames with air. Who acts: clothes. 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 9

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If your clothes catch fire, running only feeds the flames with air.

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**Who acts:** clothes · **What happens:** catch, run, feed · **To what, where:** fire, flames

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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 (clothes), 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:9
# text = If your clothes catch fire, running only feeds the flames with 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 ×4
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=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj
4	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	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=9:advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your clothes | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | present |  | the flames |  |  |  | with air | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Recipient |

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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:9`.

**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 ×4. **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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