The candle and what burning is, sentence 11

A cold plate held above a flame gets black soot: unburnt carbon from the yellow part of the flame; soot was once used to make black ink.

Who acts: cold plate, soot · What happens: hold, get, be, make · To what, where: cold plate, flame, black soot, black ink

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 (cold plate, soot), 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 plate	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plate	amod
3	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 plate	acl
5	above	above	ADP	_	7 flame	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flame	det
7	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obl
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 soot	amod
10	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 carbon	punct
12	unburnt	unburnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 carbon	amod
13	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soot	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 part	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 part	det
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 part	amod
17	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carbon	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 flame	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flame	det
20	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 part	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
22	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 used	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 used	cop
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 used	advmod
25	used	used	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 used	xcomp
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ink	amod
29	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gets	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	participle		a cold plate not said here	a flame		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above flame=Location
2	get	present	a cold plate	black soot and unburnt carbon from the yellow part of the flame			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soot=Stimulus
3	is	past	soot			once, used property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	soot not said here	black ink			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ink=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:11.

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): R7-rel-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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