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title: Breathing and burning are the same kind of reaction: food or fuel jo… — The candle and what burning is · tree and pragmatics
description: Breathing and burning are the same kind of reaction: food or fuel joins with oxygen, giving energy, carbon dioxide and water. Who acts: Breathing, food. 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 the pragmat
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# The candle and what burning is, sentence 12

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Breathing and burning are the same kind of reaction: food or fuel joins with oxygen, giving energy, carbon dioxide and water.

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**Who acts:** Breathing, food · **What happens:** breathe, be, join, give · **To what, where:** same kind, energy

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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 (Breathing, food), 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:12
# text = Breathing and burning are the same kind of reaction: food or fuel joins with oxygen, giving energy, carbon dioxide and water.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	reaction	reaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:acl
19	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Breathing | the same kind |  |  |  | of reaction | tree rules |
| 3 | **join** | present | food or fuel |  |  |  |  | with oxygen | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with oxygen=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | food or fuel *not said here* | energy and carbon dioxide and water |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |

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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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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