The candle and what burning is, sentence 14
Striking a match makes heat by friction; safety matches light only on the box strip, which holds red phosphorus.
Who acts: Striking, safety, matches, box strip · What happens: strike, make, match, light, hold · To what, where: match, heat, box strip, red phosphorus
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 (Striking, safety, matches, box strip), 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 | Striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 makes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 match | det |
| 3 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Striking | obj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 friction | case |
| 7 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 matches | punct |
| 9 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 matches | nsubj |
| 10 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 light | nsubj |
| 11 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 makes | conj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 strip | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 strip | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 strip | det |
| 15 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strip | compound |
| 16 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 light | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 phosphorus | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 holds | nsubj |
| 19 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 strip | acl:relcl |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 phosphorus | amod |
| 21 | phosphorus | phosphorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 holds | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | gerund | a match | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Striking | heat | by friction | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product | |||
| 3 | match | safety | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | light | present | matches | the box strip | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hold | present | the box strip | red phosphorus | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phosphorus=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:14.
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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