Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 2
When a metal's atoms get very hot they take in extra energy, and then give it back as light.
Who acts: atoms · What happens: get, take, give back · To what, where: extra energy, metal
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 (atoms), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 metal | det |
| 3 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 atoms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 metal | case |
| 5 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | advcl |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 hot | advmod |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 energy | case |
| 12 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 energy | amod |
| 13 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 give | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 give | advmod |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADP | _ | 17 give | compound:prt |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 light | case |
| 21 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a metal's atoms | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | present | atoms = atom | extra energy | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in energy=Location | ||||
| 3 | give back | present | atoms = atom not said here | metal | then | as light | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:2.
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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