The candle and what burning is, sentence 4
A grown-up can show the parts of a flame, but flames are never a toy.
Who acts: grown, flames · What happens: show, not be · To what, where: parts, toy
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 (grown, flames), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 up | det |
| 2 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 show | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 up | punct |
| 4 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 show | aux |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 parts | det |
| 8 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 show | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 flame | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flame | det |
| 11 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parts | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 toy | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 toy | cc |
| 14 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 toy | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 toy | cop |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 toy | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 toy | det |
| 18 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | can | grown | the parts of a flame | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent part=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | flames | a toy | tree rules |
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:4.
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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