The candle and what burning is, sentence 2
Put a jar over the candle and the flame soon dies, because it cannot get fresh oxygen.
Who acts: you, flame · What happens: put, die, not get · To what, where: jar, candle, fresh oxygen
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 (you, flame), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 jar | det |
| 3 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 candle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 candle | det |
| 6 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dies | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flame | det |
| 9 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dies | nsubj |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 dies | advmod |
| 11 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 get | advmod |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dies | advcl |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 oxygen | amod |
| 19 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a jar | the candle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jar=Theme over candle=Destination | |||
| 2 | die | present | the flame | soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | not get | can | flame | fresh oxygen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oxygen=Stimulus |
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:2.
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): no change. 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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