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title: Heat, fuel and oxygen are called the fire triangle; a fire blanket,… — Thinking it through: the science behind home saf… · tree and pragmatics
description: Heat, fuel and oxygen are called the fire triangle; a fire blanket, a thick sheet put over a small fire, works like a lid and takes away the oxygen. Who acts: thick sheet, fire blanket. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» of the everyday course of Mova's pr
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# Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 14

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Heat, fuel and oxygen are called the fire triangle; a fire blanket, a thick sheet put over a small fire, works like a lid and takes away the oxygen.

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**Who acts:** thick sheet, fire blanket · **What happens:** call, put over, work, take away · **To what, where:** Heat, small fire, oxygen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thick sheet, fire blanket), 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:14
# text = Heat, fuel and oxygen are called the fire triangle; a fire blanket, a thick sheet put over a small fire, works like a lid and takes away the oxygen.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	triangle	triangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	away	away	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Heat and fuel and oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **put over** | participle | a thick sheet *not said here* | a small fire |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | present | a fire blanket |  |  |  |  | like a lid | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take away** | present | a fire blanket *not said here* | the oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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