The candle and what burning is, sentence 5

In a candle it is the wax gas that burns, not the solid wax or the string; a freshly blown-out candle can relight through its smoke.

Who acts: flame, wax gas, blown out candle · What happens: be, burn, blow, relight, smoke · To what, where: wax gas, candle, solid wax, smoke

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 (flame, wax gas, blown out candle), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 candle	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 candle	det
3	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gas	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gas	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gas	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gas	det
7	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gas	compound
8	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 burns	nsubj
10	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gas	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wax	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 wax	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wax	det
14	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wax	amod
15	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burns	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 string	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 string	det
18	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wax	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 relight	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 candle	det
21	freshly	freshly	ADV	_	22 blown	advmod
22	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 candle	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 blown	punct
24	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 candle	compound
25	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 relight	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 relight	aux
27	relight	relight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 burns	conj
28	through	through	ADP	_	30 smoke	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 smoke	nmod:poss
30	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 relight	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gas	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	flame	the wax gas	a candle		tree rules
2	burn	present	the wax gas	the solid wax or the string			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	blow	participle				freshly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	relight	can	a blown out candle		flame's smoke		tree rules
5	smoke		flame				nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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:5.

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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