Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 6
A glow stick, a firefly and the northern lights all glow without burning, because energy is given out as light in other ways.
Who acts: glow stick · What happens: glow, burn, give out · To what, where: energy, other ways
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), 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 | 12 glow | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 firefly | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 firefly | det |
| 6 | firefly | firefly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stick | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lights | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lights | det |
| 9 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lights | amod |
| 10 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 firefly | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 glow | det |
| 12 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 burning | mark |
| 14 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 glow | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 given | mark |
| 17 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux:pass |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 glow | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 given | compound:prt |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 light | case |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ways | case |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ways | amod |
| 25 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 given | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 glow | 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 and a firefly and the northern lights | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | a glow stick and a firefly and the northern lights not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give out | present · passive | energy | other ways | as light | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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:6.
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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