--- title: A candle looks simple, but it is a little chemistry factory: the fla… — The candle and what burning is · tree and pragmatics description: A candle looks simple, but it is a little chemistry factory: the flame melts the wax, the liquid wax climbs the wick, turns into gas, and the gas is what actually burns. Who acts: candle, flame, liquid wax, gas. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (candle, flame, liquid wax, gas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:011-the-candle-and-burning.lesson:0 # text = A candle looks simple, but it is a little chemistry factory: the flame melts the wax, the liquid wax climbs the wick, turns into gas, and the gas is what actually burns. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 011-the-candle-and-burning.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 chemistry chemistry NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 liquid liquid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 wick wick NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 nsubj _ _ 36 actually actually ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | a candle | | | | | simple *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | candle | a little chemistry factory | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **melt** | present | the flame | the wax | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient wax=Result | | 4 | **climb** | present | the liquid wax | the wick | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location wick=Theme | | 5 | **turn** | present | the liquid wax *not said here* | | | gas | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into gas=Trajectory | | 6 | **is a** | present | the gas | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **burn** | present | | | | | | actually *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:011-the-candle-and-burning.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cooking is chemistry, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/16/) - next →: [The candle and what burning is, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/11-the-candle-and-burning/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/11-the-candle-and-burning/)