The candle and what burning is, sentence 13
Trick birthday candles have a metal powder, magnesium, in the wick that catches fire again from the glowing wick.
Who acts: Trick birthday candles, wick · What happens: have, catch, glow · To what, where: metal powder, wick, fire, glowing wick
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 (Trick birthday candles, wick), 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 | Trick | trick | NOUN | _ | 3 candles | compound |
| 2 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 candles | compound |
| 3 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 powder | det |
| 6 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 powder | compound |
| 7 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 magnesium | punct |
| 9 | magnesium | magnesium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 powder | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wick | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wick | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wick | det |
| 13 | wick | wick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 catches | nsubj |
| 15 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wick | acl:relcl |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catches | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 catches | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 wick | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wick | det |
| 20 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 wick | amod |
| 21 | wick | wick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catches | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Trick birthday candles | a metal powder | the wick | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent powder=Patient | |||
| 2 | catch | present | the wick | fire | the glowing wick | again | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from wick=Source | ||
| 3 | glow | gerund | 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:13.
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): R5-strong ×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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