Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★, sentence 11

In a candle it is the wax gas that burns, so a freshly blown-out candle can relight through its smoke; water must never go on burning oil.

Who acts: candle, wax gas, blown out candle, water · What happens: be, burn, blow, relight, not go, smoke · To what, where: wax gas, candle, smoke, burning oil

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» 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 (candle, wax gas, blown out candle, water), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 candle	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 candle	det
3	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gas	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gas	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gas	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gas	det
7	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gas	compound
8	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 burns	nsubj
10	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gas	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 relight	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	20 relight	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 candle	det
14	freshly	freshly	ADV	_	15 blown	advmod
15	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 candle	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 blown	punct
17	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 candle	compound
18	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 relight	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 relight	aux
20	relight	relight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gas	advcl
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 smoke	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 smoke	nmod:poss
23	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 relight	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 water	punct
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 go	advmod
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gas	parataxis
29	on	on	SCONJ	_	30 burning	mark
30	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 oil	amod
31	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gas	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	candle	the wax gas	a candle		tree rules
2	burn	present	the wax gas				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	blow	participle				freshly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	relight	can	a blown out candle		candle's smoke		tree rules
5	not go	must	water	burning oil			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	smoke		candle				nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:11.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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