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title: A cold plate held above a flame gets black soot: unburnt carbon from… — The candle and what burning is · tree and pragmatics
description: A cold plate held above a flame gets black soot: unburnt carbon from the yellow part of the flame; soot was once used to make black ink. Who acts: cold plate, soot. A sentence of the lesson «The candle and what burning is» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# The candle and what burning is, sentence 11

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A cold plate held above a flame gets black soot: unburnt carbon from the yellow part of the flame; soot was once used to make black ink.

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**Who acts:** cold plate, soot · **What happens:** hold, get, be, make · **To what, where:** cold plate, flame, black soot, black ink

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The candle and what burning is» 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 (cold plate, soot), 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:11
# text = A cold plate held above a flame gets black soot: unburnt carbon from the yellow part of the flame; soot was once used to make black ink.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	unburnt	unburnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	advmod	_	_
25	used	used	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | participle |  | a cold plate *not said here* |  | a flame |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above flame=Location |
| 2 | **get** | present | a cold plate | black soot and unburnt carbon from the yellow part of the flame |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soot=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | soot |  |  |  |  | once, used *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | soot *not said here* | black ink |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ink=Product |

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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.

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**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: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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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