--- title: In a candle it is the wax gas that burns, so a freshly blown-out can… — Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: In a candle it is the wax gas that burns, so a freshly blown-out candle can relight through its smoke; water must never go on burning oil. Who acts: candle, wax gas, blown out candle, water. 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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 (candle, wax gas, blown out candle, water), 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:11 # text = In a candle it is the wax gas that burns, so a freshly blown-out candle can relight through its smoke; water must never go on burning oil. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 14 freshly freshly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 relight relight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nmod 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 29 on on SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advcl 31 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | candle | the wax gas | | a candle | | | tree rules | | 2 | **burn** | present | the wax gas | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **blow** | participle | | | | | | freshly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **relight** | can | a blown out candle | | | candle's smoke | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **go** | must | water | burning oil | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **smoke** | | candle | | | | | | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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