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title: An ordinary metal spoon does not burn in a flame, it only gets hot;… — The candle and what burning is · tree and pragmatics
description: An ordinary metal spoon does not burn in a flame, it only gets hot; very fine steel wool can burn because thin threads have so much surface. Who acts: ordinary metal spoon, spoon, fine steel wool, thin threads. A sentence of the lesson «The candle and what burning is» of the chemistry course of Mova
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# The candle and what burning is, sentence 17

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An ordinary metal spoon does not burn in a flame, it only gets hot; very fine steel wool can burn because thin threads have so much surface.

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**Who acts:** ordinary metal spoon, spoon, fine steel wool, thin threads · **What happens:** not burn, get, burn, have · **To what, where:** flame, much surface

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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 (ordinary metal spoon, spoon, fine steel wool, thin threads), 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:17
# text = An ordinary metal spoon does not burn in a flame, it only gets hot; very fine steel wool can burn because thin threads have so much surface.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod
3	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **not** **burn** | present · do-support | a ordinary metal spoon |  |  | a flame |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flame=Location |
| 2 | **get** | present | spoon |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **burn** | can | fine steel wool |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | thin threads | much surface |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Patient |

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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:17`.

**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 ×2. **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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