The candle and what burning is, sentence 17

An ordinary metal spoon does not burn in a flame, it only gets hot; very fine steel wool can burn because thin threads have so much surface.

Who acts: ordinary metal spoon, spoon, fine steel wool, thin threads · What happens: not burn, get, burn, have · To what, where: flame, much surface

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 (ordinary metal spoon, spoon, fine steel wool, thin threads), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spoon	det
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spoon	amod
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoon	compound
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 burn	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 burn	advmod
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 flame	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 flame	det
10	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gets	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gets	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 gets	advmod
14	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 burn	advcl
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gets	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 fine	advmod
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wool	amod
19	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wool	compound
20	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burn	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 burn	aux
22	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gets	parataxis
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
24	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 threads	amod
25	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 burn	advcl
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 surface	amod
29	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not burn	present · do-support	a ordinary metal spoon		a flame		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flame=Location
2	get	present	spoon			hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	burn	can	fine steel wool				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	thin threads	much surface			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Patient

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:17.

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 ×2. 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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