The candle and what burning is, sentence 16
Burning charcoal gives off carbon monoxide, an invisible poisonous gas, so barbecues must never be brought indoors or into a tent.
Who acts: Burning charcoal · What happens: burn, give off, not bring · To what, where: carbon monoxide, barbecues
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 charcoal), 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 charcoal | amod |
| 2 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 gives | compound:prt |
| 5 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 monoxide | compound |
| 6 | monoxide | monoxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gas | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gas | det |
| 9 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gas | amod |
| 10 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gas | amod |
| 11 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 monoxide | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 brought | advmod |
| 14 | barbecues | barbecue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 brought | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gives | parataxis |
| 19 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 18 brought | advmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 tent | cc |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 tent | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tent | det |
| 23 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 indoors | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | 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 | give off | present | Burning charcoal | carbon monoxide | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source monoxide=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not bring | must · passive | barbecues | indoors property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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:16.
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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