Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 4

You can see the same thing at home when a grown-up sprinkles a pinch of salt into a gas flame: it flashes bright yellow, because salt has sodium in it.

Who acts: You, grown, up, salt · What happens: see, sprinkle, flash, have, pinch · To what, where: same thing, home, pinch, gas flame, bright yellow, sodium

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 (You, grown, up, salt), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 sprinkles	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 up	det
11	grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sprinkles	nsubj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 up	punct
13	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sprinkles	nsubj
14	sprinkles	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pinch	det
16	pinch	pinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sprinkles	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 salt	case
18	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pinch	nmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 flame	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 flame	det
21	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flame	compound
22	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sprinkles	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 flashes	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flashes	nsubj
25	flashes	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	parataxis
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 yellow	amod
27	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 flashes	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 has	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 has	mark
30	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 flashes	advcl
32	sodium	sodium	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 has	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	can	You	the same thing	home	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	sprinkle	present	grown	a pinch of salt	a gas flame	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pinch=Theme into flame=Destination
3	flash	present	up	bright yellow		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yellow=Theme
4	have	present	salt	sodium	up	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sodium=Patient
5	pinch			salt		nom pinch «state transitive»: of=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:4.

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, 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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