Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 0

A fire needs three things at once: fuel to burn, heat to keep it going, and oxygen from the air; this is the fire triangle on the poster at school.

Who acts: fire, this · What happens: need, burn, keep, go, be · To what, where: three things, fire, fire triangle, poster

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry 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 (fire, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 things	nummod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needs	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 needs	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fuel	punct
9	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 things	appos
10	to	to	PART	_	11 burn	mark
11	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fuel	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heat	punct
13	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fuel	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 heat	acl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	obj
17	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 keep	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 oxygen	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 oxygen	cc
20	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fuel	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 oxygen	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 needs	punct
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 triangle	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 triangle	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 triangle	det
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 triangle	compound
29	triangle	triangle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	parataxis
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 poster	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 poster	det
32	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 triangle	nmod
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 school	case
34	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 poster	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	need	present	a fire	three things		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
2	burn	to-infinitive	a fire not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	to-infinitive	a fire not said here	fire		tree rules
4	go	gerund	fire not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	this	the fire triangle	the poster at school	tree rules

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, 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:chemistry:012-fire-what-it-needs.lesson:0.

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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