The candle and what burning is, sentence 12
Breathing and burning are the same kind of reaction: food or fuel joins with oxygen, giving energy, carbon dioxide and water.
Who acts: Breathing, food · What happens: breathe, be, join, give · To what, where: same kind, energy
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 (Breathing, food), 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 | Breathing | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kind | csubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 burning | cc |
| 3 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Breathing | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kind | amod |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 reaction | case |
| 9 | reaction | reaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 joins | punct |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 joins | nsubj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 fuel | cc |
| 13 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 food | conj |
| 14 | joins | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 oxygen | case |
| 16 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 joins | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 giving | punct |
| 18 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 joins | advcl |
| 19 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 giving | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dioxide | punct |
| 21 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dioxide | compound |
| 22 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 energy | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 water | cc |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 energy | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | gerund | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Breathing | the same kind | of reaction | tree rules | |||
| 3 | join | present | food or fuel | with oxygen | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with oxygen=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | food or fuel not said here | energy and carbon dioxide and water | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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