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title: A candle flame is blue at the bottom where it gets plenty of air, br… — The candle and what burning is · tree and pragmatics
description: A candle flame is blue at the bottom where it gets plenty of air, bright yellow in the middle where specks of soot glow, and darker at the tip. Who acts: candle flame, flame, specks. A sentence of the lesson «The candle and what burning is» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# The candle and what burning is, sentence 6

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A candle flame is blue at the bottom where it gets plenty of air, bright yellow in the middle where specks of soot glow, and darker at the tip.

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**Who acts:** candle flame, flame, specks · **What happens:** be, get, glow · **To what, where:** bottom, plenty

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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 (candle flame, flame, specks), 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:6
# text = A candle flame is blue at the bottom where it gets plenty of air, bright yellow in the middle where specks of soot glow, and darker at the tip.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	glow	glow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | a candle flame |  |  | the bottom |  | blue *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | flame | plenty of air |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus |
| 3 | **glow** | present | specks of soot |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP 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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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