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title: Carbon dioxide pushes oxygen away from a flame, so poured over a can… — The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda · tree and pragmatics
description: Carbon dioxide pushes oxygen away from a flame, so poured over a candle it puts it out; some fire extinguishers use it. Who acts: Carbon dioxide, dioxide, fire extinguishers. A sentence of the lesson «The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda, sentence 14

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Carbon dioxide pushes oxygen away from a flame, so poured over a candle it puts it out; some fire extinguishers use it.

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**Who acts:** Carbon dioxide, dioxide, fire extinguishers · **What happens:** push away, pour, put out, use · **To what, where:** oxygen, flame, candle, dioxide

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda» 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 (Carbon dioxide, dioxide, fire extinguishers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:018-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda.lesson:14
# text = Carbon dioxide pushes oxygen away from a flame, so poured over a candle it puts it out; some fire extinguishers use it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 018-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda.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	Carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	extinguishers	extinguisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **push away** | present | Carbon dioxide | oxygen |  | a flame |  | away *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme from flame=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pour** | participle |  |  |  | a candle |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over candle=Location |
| 3 | **put out** | present | dioxide | oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 4 | **use** | present | some fire extinguishers | dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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.

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