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title: A glow stick, a firefly and the northern lights all glow without bur… — Colours of fire: fireworks · tree and pragmatics
description: A glow stick, a firefly and the northern lights all glow without burning, because energy is given out as light in other ways. Who acts: glow stick. A sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 6

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A glow stick, a firefly and the northern lights all glow without burning, because energy is given out as light in other ways.

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**Who acts:** glow stick · **What happens:** glow, burn, give out · **To what, where:** energy, other ways

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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 (glow stick), 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:6
# text = A glow stick, a firefly and the northern lights all glow without burning, because energy is given out as light in other ways.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	firefly	firefly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	glow	glow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	energy	energy	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	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **glow** | present | a glow stick and a firefly and the northern lights |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | a glow stick and a firefly and the northern lights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give out** | present · passive |  | energy |  | other ways |  | as light | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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**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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