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title: Fireworks and firecrackers thrown at people or houses can cause burn… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics
description: Fireworks and firecrackers thrown at people or houses can cause burns, fires and great fright, especially to old people and animals. Who acts: Fireworks. A sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 23

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Fireworks and firecrackers thrown at people or houses can cause burns, fires and great fright, especially to old people and animals.

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**Who acts:** Fireworks · **What happens:** thrown, cause · **To what, where:** Fireworks, burns

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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 (Fireworks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:23
# text = Fireworks and firecrackers thrown at people or houses can cause burns, fires and great fright, especially to old people and animals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.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	Fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	firecrackers	firecracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	thrown	thrown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	burns	burn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **thrown** | participle |  | Fireworks and firecrackers *not said here* |  |  |  | at people or houses | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | can | Fireworks and firecrackers | burns and fires and great fright |  |  |  | to old people and animals | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition burn=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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:23`.

**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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