Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 16
A flame is glowing hot gas; its yellow light comes from tiny specks of hot soot.
Who acts: flame, yellow light · What happens: glow, come, light · To what, where: hot gas, tiny specks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» 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 (flame, yellow light), 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 | 2 flame | det |
| 2 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glowing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glowing | aux |
| 4 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gas | amod |
| 6 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glowing | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 comes | punct |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 light | nmod:poss |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 light | amod |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glowing | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 specks | case |
| 13 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 specks | amod |
| 14 | specks | speck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 comes | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 soot | case |
| 16 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soot | amod |
| 17 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 specks | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glowing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | present · progressive | a flame | hot gas | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gas=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | flame's yellow light | tiny specks of hot soot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from speck=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | light | flame | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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:004-solids-liquids-and-gases.lesson:16.
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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