Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 14
Smoke is tiny bits of unburnt fuel, ash and gases; wet fuel makes thick smoke, and burning plastic makes especially poisonous smoke.
Who acts: Smoke, wet fuel, burning plastic · What happens: be, make, burn · To what, where: tiny bits, thick smoke, poisonous smoke
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» 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 (Smoke, wet fuel, burning plastic), 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 | Smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bits | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bits | cop |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bits | amod |
| 4 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fuel | case |
| 6 | unburnt | unburnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fuel | amod |
| 7 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bits | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ash | punct |
| 9 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fuel | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gases | cc |
| 11 | gases | gas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ash | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 13 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fuel | amod |
| 14 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bits | parataxis |
| 16 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 smoke | amod |
| 17 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 makes | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 makes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 makes | cc |
| 20 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 plastic | amod |
| 21 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 makes | nsubj |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 makes | conj |
| 23 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 24 poisonous | advmod |
| 24 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 smoke | amod |
| 25 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 makes | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bits | 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 | is a | present | Smoke | tiny bits | of unburnt fuel and ash and gases | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | wet fuel | thick smoke | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smoke=Product | ||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | make | present | burning plastic | poisonous smoke | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smoke=Product |
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:012-fire-what-it-needs.lesson:14.
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, 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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