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title: In a bushfire, leaving early is the safest choice. — Weather emergencies · tree and pragmatics
description: In a bushfire, leaving early is the safest choice. Who acts: leaving. A sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Weather emergencies, sentence 16

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In a bushfire, leaving early is the safest choice.

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**Who acts:** leaving · **What happens:** leave, be · **To what, where:** safest choice, bushfire

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather emergencies» 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 (leaving), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:048-weather-emergencies.lesson:16
# text = In a bushfire, leaving early is the safest choice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 048-weather-emergencies.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bushfire	bushfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
6	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	.	.	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 | **leave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | leaving | the safest choice |  | a bushfire |  |  | 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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**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.

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