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title: The three friends were thrown into a fiery furnace but were not burnt. — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics
description: The three friends were thrown into a fiery furnace but were not burnt. A sentence of the lesson «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, sentence 8

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The three friends were thrown into a fiery furnace but were not burnt.

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**What happens:** throw, not burn · **To what, where:** three friends, fiery furnace

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets» of the religion ethics 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.lesson:8
# text = The three friends were thrown into a fiery furnace but were not burnt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **throw** | past · passive |  | the three friends |  |  |  | into a fiery furnace *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into furnace=Result |
| 2 | **not** **burn** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V» |

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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:religion-ethics:010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.lesson:8`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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