--- title: You can see the same thing at home when a grown-up sprinkles a pinch… — Colours of fire: fireworks · tree and pragmatics description: You can see the same thing at home when a grown-up sprinkles a pinch of salt into a gas flame: it flashes bright yellow, because salt has sodium in it. Who acts: You, grown, up, salt. A sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Colours of fire: fireworks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/) / 4 # Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 4 You can see the same thing at home when a grown-up sprinkles a pinch of salt into a gas flame: it flashes bright yellow, because salt has sodium in it. **Who acts:** You, grown, up, salt · **What happens:** see, sprinkle, flash, have, pinch · **To what, where:** same thing, home, pinch, gas flame, bright yellow, sodium This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» 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 (You, grown, up, salt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.lesson:4 # text = You can see the same thing at home when a grown-up sprinkles a pinch of salt into a gas flame: it flashes bright yellow, because salt has sodium in it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 11 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nsubj _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 13 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 14 sprinkles sprinkle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 pinch pinch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 flashes flash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 32 sodium sodium NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | can | You | the same thing | | home | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 2 | **sprinkle** | present | grown | a pinch of salt | | a gas flame | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pinch=Theme into flame=Destination | | 3 | **flash** | present | up | bright yellow | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yellow=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | salt | sodium | | up | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sodium=Patient | | 5 | **pinch** | | | salt | | | | | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=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:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.lesson:4`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Colours of fire: fireworks, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/3/) - next →: [Colours of fire: fireworks, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/)