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title: Salt contains sodium, so a pinch of salt in a gas flame turns it bri… — Colours of fire: fireworks · tree and pragmatics
description: Salt contains sodium, so a pinch of salt in a gas flame turns it bright yellow; old orange street lamps used sodium for the same reason. Who acts: Salt, pinch, old orange street lamps. A sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 9

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Salt contains sodium, so a pinch of salt in a gas flame turns it bright yellow; old orange street lamps used sodium for the same reason.

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**Who acts:** Salt, pinch, old orange street lamps · **What happens:** contain, turn, use, pinch · **To what, where:** sodium, salt, gas flame

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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 (Salt, pinch, old orange street lamps), 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:9
# text = Salt contains sodium, so a pinch of salt in a gas flame turns it bright yellow; old orange street lamps used sodium for the same reason.
# 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	Salt	Salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sodium	sodium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pinch	pinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	sodium	sodium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **contain** | present | Salt | sodium |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sodium=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | a pinch of salt in a gas flame | salt |  |  |  | yellow *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | past | old orange street lamps | sodium |  |  |  | for the same reason | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent sodium=Theme for reason=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pinch** |  |  | salt |  | a gas flame |  |  | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient in=place |

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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.

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