The candle and what burning is, sentence 9

The water that rises in a jar over a candle in water is not only because oxygen is used up; the air in the jar also cools and shrinks.

Who acts: water, air · What happens: rise, not be, use up, cool, shrink · To what, where: jar, 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 (water, air), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 rises	nsubj
4	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 water	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 jar	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jar	det
7	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rises	obl
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 candle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 candle	det
10	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rises	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 candle	nmod
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 is	advmod
15	only	only	ADV	_	13 is	advmod
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 used	mark
17	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 used	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 used	aux:pass
19	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 is	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 used	compound:prt
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 cools	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cools	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 jar	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 jar	det
26	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 air	nmod
27	also	also	ADV	_	28 cools	advmod
28	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 is	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shrinks	cc
30	shrinks	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 cools	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 is	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	rise	present	the water		a jar	over a candle in water	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in jar=Location
2	not be	present	the water				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use up	present · passive		oxygen			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	cool		the air in the jar				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	shrink	present	the air in the jar not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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