--- title: Fire needs fuel, heat and oxygen; a candle under a jar goes out when… — Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Fire needs fuel, heat and oxygen; a candle under a jar goes out when the oxygen runs low, so a bigger jar keeps it burning longer. Who acts: Fire, candle, oxygen, bigger jar. 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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 (Fire, candle, oxygen, bigger jar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:10 # text = Fire needs fuel, heat and oxygen; a candle under a jar goes out when the oxygen runs low, so a bigger jar keeps it burning longer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 under under ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 14 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 20 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 xcomp _ _ 29 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **need** | present | Fire | fuel and heat and oxygen | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuel=Theme | | 2 | **go out** | present | a candle under a jar | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **run** | present | the oxygen | | | | | low *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | a bigger jar | oxygen | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **burn** | gerund | oxygen *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:10`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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