The candle and what burning is, sentence 10
Burning wax joins its carbon and hydrogen with oxygen and makes carbon dioxide and water vapour.
Who acts: Burning wax · What happens: burn, join, make · To what, where: carbon, carbon dioxide
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 (Burning wax), 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 | Burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wax | amod |
| 2 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joins | nsubj |
| 3 | joins | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 carbon | nmod:poss |
| 5 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joins | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hydrogen | cc |
| 7 | hydrogen | hydrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carbon | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 oxygen | case |
| 9 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joins | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 makes | cc |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 joins | conj |
| 12 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dioxide | compound |
| 13 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 makes | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 vapour | cc |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vapour | compound |
| 16 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dioxide | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | join | present | Burning wax | wax's carbon and hydrogen | with oxygen | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent carbon=Patient with oxygen=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | make | present | Burning wax not said here | carbon dioxide and water vapour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dioxide=Product |
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:10.
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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