The candle and what burning is, sentence 0

A candle looks simple, but it is a little chemistry factory: the flame melts the wax, the liquid wax climbs the wick, turns into gas, and the gas is what actually burns.

Who acts: candle, flame, liquid wax, gas · What happens: look, be, melt, climb, turn, burn · To what, where: little chemistry factory, wax, wick, gas

This is a sentence of the lesson «The candle and what burning is» 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 (candle, flame, liquid wax, gas), 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 candle	det
2	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 factory	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 factory	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 factory	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 factory	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 factory	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 factory	amod
11	chemistry	chemistry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 factory	compound
12	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 melts	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flame	det
15	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 melts	nsubj
16	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 factory	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wax	det
18	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 melts	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 climbs	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wax	det
21	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wax	amod
22	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 climbs	nsubj
23	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 melts	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wick	det
25	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 climbs	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turns	punct
27	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 climbs	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 gas	case
29	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turns	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 burns	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 burns	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gas	det
33	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 what	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 what	cop
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 burns	nsubj
36	actually	actually	ADV	_	37 burns	advmod
37	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 climbs	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	a candle			simple property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	candle	a little chemistry factory			tree rules
3	melt	present	the flame	the wax			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient wax=Result
4	climb	present	the liquid wax	the wick			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wick=Theme
5	turn	present	the liquid wax not said here		gas		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into gas=Trajectory
6	is a	present	the gas				tree rules
7	burn	present				actually property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP 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:011-the-candle-and-burning.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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