Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 16

Bending a glow stick breaks a thin glass tube inside, two chemicals mix, and their reaction gives out light with almost no heat.

Who acts: Bending, two chemicals, reaction, chemicals · What happens: bend, break, mix, give out, react · To what, where: glow stick, thin glass tube, light

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 (Bending, two chemicals, reaction, chemicals), 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	Bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 breaks	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stick	det
3	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	compound
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bending	obj
5	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tube	det
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tube	amod
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tube	compound
9	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breaks	obj
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	9 tube	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mix	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 chemicals	nummod
13	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 mix	nsubj
14	mix	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 breaks	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gives	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gives	cc
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 reaction	nmod:poss
18	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gives	nsubj
19	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 breaks	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 gives	compound:prt
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gives	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 heat	case
23	almost	almost	ADV	_	25 heat	advmod
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 heat	det
25	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gives	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 breaks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bend	gerund		a glow stick		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent stick=Material
2	break	present	Bending	a thin glass tube		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tube=Patient
3	mix	present	two chemicals			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	give out	present	chemicals's reaction	light	with no heat	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent light=Theme
5	react		chemicals = chemical			nom reaction «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:16.

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, R7-rel-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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