Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 17
A glow stick in the freezer glows more dimly but lasts longer, because cold slows the reaction down.
Who acts: glow stick, cold · What happens: glow, last, slow down · To what, where: reaction
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 (glow stick, cold), 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 | 3 stick | det |
| 2 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stick | compound |
| 3 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glows | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 freezer | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 freezer | det |
| 6 | freezer | freezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stick | nmod |
| 7 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 dimly | advmod |
| 9 | dimly | dimly | ADV | _ | 7 glows | advmod |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 lasts | cc |
| 11 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 glows | conj |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 lasts | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slows | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 slows | mark |
| 15 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slows | nsubj |
| 16 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 glows | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 reaction | det |
| 18 | reaction | reaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slows | obj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 slows | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | present | a glow stick in the freezer | dimly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | last | present | a glow stick in the freezer not said here | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slow down | present | cold | the reaction | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent reaction=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:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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