Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 1

Take away any one side and the fire goes out: water takes away heat, a lid or a fire blanket takes away oxygen, and a gap cut in a forest takes away fuel.

Who acts: you, fire, water, lid, gap · What happens: take away, go out, cut · To what, where: one side, heat, oxygen, gap, forest, fuel

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 (you, fire, water, lid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

command

act

suggest

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

changed act=suggest

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/1/