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title: A fire needs heat, fuel and oxygen; taking away any one puts it out. — Thinking it through: the science behind home saf… · tree and pragmatics
description: A fire needs heat, fuel and oxygen; taking away any one puts it out. Who acts: fire. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 13

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A fire needs heat, fuel and oxygen; taking away any one puts it out.

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**Who acts:** fire · **What happens:** need, take away, put out · **To what, where:** heat, one, fire

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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 (fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:13
# text = A fire needs heat, fuel and oxygen; taking away any one puts it out.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 040-home-safety-reasoning.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj
14	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **need** | present | a fire | heat and fuel and oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heat=Theme |
| 2 | **take away** | gerund | a fire *not said here* | any one |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **put out** | present | a fire *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:13`.

**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, R7-rel-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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