Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 9

Salt contains sodium, so a pinch of salt in a gas flame turns it bright yellow; old orange street lamps used sodium for the same reason.

Who acts: Salt, pinch, old orange street lamps · What happens: contain, turn, use, pinch · To what, where: sodium, salt, gas flame

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 (Salt, pinch, old orange street lamps), 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	Salt	Salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sodium	sodium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contains	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turns	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	14 turns	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pinch	det
7	pinch	pinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turns	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 salt	case
9	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pinch	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 flame	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flame	det
12	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flame	compound
13	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pinch	nmod
14	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 contains	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turns	obj
16	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 yellow	amod
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 turns	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lamps	punct
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lamps	amod
20	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lamps	amod
21	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lamps	compound
22	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 used	nsubj
23	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 contains	parataxis
24	sodium	sodium	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 used	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 reason	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 reason	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 reason	amod
28	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 used	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contains	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	contain	present	Salt	sodium			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sodium=Theme
2	turn	present	a pinch of salt in a gas flame	salt		yellow property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	use	past	old orange street lamps	sodium		for the same reason	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent sodium=Theme for reason=Eventuality
4	pinch			salt	a gas flame		nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient in=place

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:9.

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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