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title: Burning charcoal gives off carbon monoxide, an invisible poisonous g… — The candle and what burning is · tree and pragmatics
description: Burning charcoal gives off carbon monoxide, an invisible poisonous gas, so barbecues must never be brought indoors or into a tent. Who acts: Burning charcoal. 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 p
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# The candle and what burning is, sentence 16

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Burning charcoal gives off carbon monoxide, an invisible poisonous gas, so barbecues must never be brought indoors or into a tent.

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**Who acts:** Burning charcoal · **What happens:** burn, give off, not bring · **To what, where:** carbon monoxide, barbecues

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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 (Burning charcoal), 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:16
# text = Burning charcoal gives off carbon monoxide, an invisible poisonous gas, so barbecues must never be brought indoors or into a tent.
# 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	Burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	amod	_	_
2	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	barbecues	barbecue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
19	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give off** | present | Burning charcoal | carbon monoxide |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source monoxide=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **bring** | must · passive |  | barbecues |  |  |  | indoors *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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:16`.

**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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