--- title: The water that rises in a jar over a candle in water is not only bec… — The candle and what burning is · tree and pragmatics description: The water that rises in a jar over a candle in water is not only because oxygen is used up; the air in the jar also cools and shrinks. Who acts: water, air. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, air), 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:9 # text = The water that rises in a jar over a candle in water is not only because oxygen is used up; the air in the jar also cools and shrinks. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 also also ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 cools cool VERB NNS Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:NNS:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | present | the water | | | a jar | | over a candle in water | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in jar=Location | | 2 | **not** **be** | present | the water | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **use up** | present · passive | | oxygen | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **cool** | | the air in the jar | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **shrink** | present | the air in the jar *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The candle and what burning is, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/11-the-candle-and-burning/8/) - next →: [The candle and what burning is, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/11-the-candle-and-burning/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/11-the-candle-and-burning/)