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title: Your body does the same reaction slowly and gently: it "burns" food… — The candle and what burning is · tree and pragmatics
description: Your body does the same reaction slowly and gently: it "burns" food with oxygen to keep you warm and moving, with no flame at all. Who acts: body. 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 pragmatics of
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# The candle and what burning is, sentence 3

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Your body does the same reaction slowly and gently: it "burns" food with oxygen to keep you warm and moving, with no flame at all.

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**Who acts:** body · **What happens:** do, burn, keep, move · **To what, where:** same reaction, food, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (body), 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:3
# text = Your body does the same reaction slowly and gently: it "burns" food with oxygen to keep you warm and moving, with no flame at all.
# 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 ×3
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	reaction	reaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **do** | present | Your body | the same reaction |  |  |  | slowly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** *in a quote* | present | body | food |  |  |  | with oxygen | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent food=Patient with oxygen=Instrument |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | body *not said here* | you |  |  |  | with no flame at all; warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | gerund | body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:3`.

**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 ×3. **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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