--- title: A fire needs three things, fuel, oxygen and heat, and taking away an… — Fuels, the Sun and saving energy · tree and pragmatics description: A fire needs three things, fuel, oxygen and heat, and taking away any one puts it out, which is how a fire blanket works: it keeps the oxygen away. Who acts: fire, taking, blanket. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, taking, blanket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.lesson:1 # text = A fire needs three things, fuel, oxygen and heat, and taking away any one puts it out, which is how a fire blanket works: it keeps the oxygen away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.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): R6-punct-agree ×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 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | a fire | three things and fuel and oxygen and heat | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | | 2 | **take away** | gerund | | any one | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 3 | **put out** | present | taking | fire | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | work *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **keep away** | present | blanket | the oxygen | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | 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. **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:physics:032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Fuels, the Sun and saving energy, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy/0/) - next →: [Fuels, the Sun and saving energy, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy/)