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title: Lit candles and running children are a fire and burn risk. — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics
description: Lit candles and running children are a fire and burn risk. Who acts: Lit candles. A sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 25

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Lit candles and running children are a fire and burn risk.

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**Who acts:** Lit candles · **What happens:** run, be · **To what, where:** fire

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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 (Lit candles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:25
# text = Lit candles and running children are a fire and burn risk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Lit	lit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound
11	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Lit candles and running children | a fire and burn and risk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:25`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-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/).

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