Air and why we need it, sentence 12

Burning needs oxygen; without it a fire goes out, and a car engine, which burns fuel, needs air coming in for the same reason.

Who acts: fire, car engine, air · What happens: burn, need, go out, come in · To what, where: oxygen, fuel, air

This is a sentence of the lesson «Air and why we need it» of the world 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 (fire, car engine, air), 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	Burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 goes	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 goes	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 needs	parataxis
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 goes	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 needs	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 needs	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 engine	det
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 engine	compound
15	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 needs	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 burns	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 burns	nsubj
18	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 engine	acl:relcl
19	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burns	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 burns	punct
21	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 needs	conj
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 needs	obj
23	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 needs	xcomp
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 coming	advmod
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 coming	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present		oxygen		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot oxygen=Theme
3	go out	present	a fire	oxygen		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	burn	present	a car engine	fuel		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme
5	need	present	a car engine	air		tree rules
6	come in not said to happen	gerund	air not said here		for the same reason	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:world:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.lesson:12.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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