The candle and what burning is, sentence 8

A jar over a candle makes the flame go out because it runs out of oxygen; a bigger jar holds more air, so the candle lasts longer.

Who acts: jar, flame, bigger jar, candle · What happens: make, go out, run, hold, last · To what, where: flame, oxygen, more air

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 (jar, flame, bigger jar, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 jar	det
2	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 candle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 candle	det
5	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jar	nmod
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flame	det
8	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 go	compound:prt
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 runs	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 runs	nsubj
13	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 oxygen	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 oxygen	case
16	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 runs	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 holds	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 jar	det
19	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 jar	amod
20	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 holds	nsubj
21	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	parataxis
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 air	amod
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 holds	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lasts	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 lasts	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 candle	det
27	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lasts	nsubj
28	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	conj
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 lasts	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	a jar over a candle	the flame			tree rules
2	go out	infinitive	the flame not said here				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	present	flame		oxygen		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out oxygen=Trajectory
4	hold	present	a bigger jar	more air			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
5	last	present	the candle			long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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:8.

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 ×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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