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title: A burning pan must never be carried, because moving it can splash bu… — Thinking it through: the science behind home saf… · tree and pragmatics
description: A burning pan must never be carried, because moving it can splash burning oil and spread the fire. Who acts: moving. 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 cla
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# Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 19

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A burning pan must never be carried, because moving it can splash burning oil and spread the fire.

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**Who acts:** moving · **What happens:** not carry, move, splash, burn, spread · **To what, where:** burning pan, pan, burning oil, 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 (moving), 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:19
# text = A burning pan must never be carried, because moving it can splash burning oil and spread the fire.
# 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	3	det	_	_
2	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	splash	splash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **not** **carry** | must · passive |  | a burning pan |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | gerund |  | pan |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **splash** | can | moving | burning oil |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oil=Theme |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **spread** | infinitive | moving *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=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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**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:19`.

**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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