Air and why we need it, sentence 5
For example, if you put a glass jar over a burning candle, the flame soon goes out, because it has used up much of the oxygen inside.
Who acts: you, flame · What happens: put, burn, go out, use up · To what, where: glass jar, burning candle, much
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 (you, flame), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 goes | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 jar | det |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jar | compound |
| 9 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 candle | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 candle | det |
| 12 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 candle | amod |
| 13 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 goes | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flame | det |
| 16 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 goes | nsubj |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 goes | advmod |
| 18 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 goes | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 used | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 used | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 used | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 used | aux |
| 24 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 goes | advcl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 used | compound:prt |
| 26 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 used | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 oxygen | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 oxygen | det |
| 29 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 much | nmod |
| 30 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 24 used | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 goes | 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 | put a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a glass jar | a burning candle | for example | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jar=Theme over candle=Destination | ||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go out | present | the flame | soon property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | use up | present · perfect | flame | much of the oxygen | inside property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
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:5.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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