--- title: Fire needs oxygen too: a flame goes out when its air is cut off, whi… — Air and why we need it · tree and pragmatics description: Fire needs oxygen too: a flame goes out when its air is cut off, which is how a fire blanket smothers a fire. Who acts: Fire, flame, fire 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, flame, fire blanket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.lesson:3 # text = Fire needs oxygen too: a flame goes out when its air is cut off, which is how a fire blanket smothers a fire. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 smothers smother VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod:unmarked 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Fire | oxygen | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot oxygen=Theme | | 2 | **go out** | present | a flame | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cut off** | present · passive | | oxygen's air | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | how *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **smother** | present | a fire blanket | a fire | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Destination | 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:world:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [Air and why we need it, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/2/) - next →: [Air and why we need it, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/)