Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 18
Fireflies make light with a chemical reaction in their bodies, like a glow stick's; some deep-sea fish make light the same way.
Who acts: Fireflies, sea fish · What happens: make · To what, where: 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 (Fireflies, sea fish), 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 | Fireflies | firefly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 reaction | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 reaction | det |
| 6 | chemical | chemical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reaction | amod |
| 7 | reaction | reaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bodies | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reaction | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 stick | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stick | det |
| 14 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stick | compound |
| 15 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obl |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 stick | case |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 fish | det |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sea | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 deep | punct |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fish | compound |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 make | nsubj |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 make | parataxis |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 way | amod |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Fireflies | light | with a chemical reaction in firefly's bodies; like a glow stick | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product | |||
| 2 | make | present | some sea fish | light | the same way obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.lesson:18.
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, 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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