Fire, candles and garage and garden tools, sentence 0
Fire grows very fast: a candle flame that touches a curtain can fill a room with smoke in a few minutes, which is why matches, lighters and candles are grown-ups' tools and are never left alone.
Who acts: Fire, candle flame, matches · What happens: grow, touch, fill, be, not leave · To what, where: curtain, room, tools
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday 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, candle flame, matches), 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 | Fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 fast | advmod |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 grows | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 fill | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flame | det |
| 7 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flame | compound |
| 8 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fill | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 touches | nsubj |
| 10 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flame | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 curtain | det |
| 12 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 touches | obj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fill | aux |
| 14 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grows | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fill | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 smoke | case |
| 18 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 room | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 minutes | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 minutes | det |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 minutes | amod |
| 22 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fill | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 why | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 why | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 why | cop |
| 26 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 fill | parataxis |
| 27 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 tools | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lighters | punct |
| 29 | lighters | lighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 matches | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 candles | cc |
| 31 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 matches | conj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 tools | cop |
| 33 | grown | grow | NOUN | _ | 35 ups | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 ups | punct |
| 35 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 tools | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 35 ups | case |
| 37 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 why | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 left | cc |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 left | aux:pass |
| 40 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 41 left | advmod |
| 41 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 tools | conj |
| 42 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 left | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Fire | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | present | a candle flame | a curtain | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme curtain=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | can | a candle flame | a room | minute | with smoke | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with smoke=Instrument | ||
| 4 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | matches and lighters and candles | grown ups's tools | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not leave | present · passive | matches and lighters and candles not said here | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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