Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 7

A fire blanket smothers a small fire by cutting off oxygen; if your own clothes catch fire, the rule is "stop, drop and roll".

Who acts: fire blanket, own clothes, rule · What happens: smother, cut off, catch, be, drop · To what, where: small fire, oxygen, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

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 blanket, own clothes, rule), 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	3 blanket	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blanket	compound
3	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smothers	nsubj
4	smothers	smother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fire	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smothers	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 cutting	mark
9	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 fire	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 cutting	compound:prt
11	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cutting	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 smothers	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 catch	mark
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 clothes	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clothes	amod
16	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 catch	nsubj
17	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stop	advcl
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 catch	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 catch	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rule	det
21	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stop	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stop	cop
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 stop	punct
24	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smothers	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drop	punct
26	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stop	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 roll	cc
28	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drop	conj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 stop	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smothers	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smother	present	a fire blanket	a small fire		tree rules
2	cut off	gerund	a fire blanket not said here	oxygen		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector oxygen=Eventuality
3	catch a condition, not said to happen	present	your own clothes	fire		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	the rule		stop property	tree rules
5	drop in a quote	infinitive	the rule not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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, 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:7.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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