Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 14
Some party candles have metal salts in the wick, so their flames burn green, red or lilac.
Who acts: party candles, flames, candles · What happens: have, burn, flame · To what, where: metal salts, wick
This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» 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 (party candles, flames, candles), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 candles | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 candles | compound |
| 3 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 salts | compound |
| 6 | salts | salt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wick | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wick | det |
| 9 | wick | wick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 burn | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 burn | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 flames | nmod:poss |
| 13 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burn | nsubj |
| 14 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 burn | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 red | punct |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 green | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 lilac | cc |
| 19 | lilac | lilac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 green | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | some party candles | metal salts | the wick | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient | |||
| 2 | burn | present | candles's flames | green property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flame | candles = candle | nom flame «process 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:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.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 ×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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