The candle and what burning is, sentence 6
A candle flame is blue at the bottom where it gets plenty of air, bright yellow in the middle where specks of soot glow, and darker at the tip.
Who acts: candle flame, flame, specks · What happens: be, get, glow · To what, where: bottom, plenty
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 (candle flame, flame, specks), 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 | 3 flame | det |
| 2 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flame | compound |
| 3 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blue | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blue | cop |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 bottom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottom | det |
| 8 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blue | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 gets | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bottom | acl:relcl |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plenty | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yellow | punct |
| 16 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 yellow | amod |
| 17 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bottom | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 middle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 middle | det |
| 20 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yellow | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 glow | advmod |
| 22 | specks | speck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 glow | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 soot | case |
| 24 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 specks | nmod |
| 25 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 middle | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 darker | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 darker | cc |
| 28 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 yellow | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 tip | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tip | det |
| 31 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 darker | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a candle flame | the bottom | blue property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | present | flame | plenty of air | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | glow | present | specks of soot | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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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