--- title: Blowing out a candle pushes the flame's hot gas away from the wick,… — Wind and weather · tree and pragmatics description: Blowing out a candle pushes the flame's hot gas away from the wick, while very gentle blowing can bring more air and make it brighter. Who acts: Blowing, gentle blowing. A sentence of the lesson «Wind and weather» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/17/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Wind and weather](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/) / 17 # Wind and weather, sentence 17 Blowing out a candle pushes the flame's hot gas away from the wick, while very gentle blowing can bring more air and make it brighter. **Who acts:** Blowing, gentle blowing · **What happens:** blow out, push, bring, make · **To what, where:** candle, hot gas, wick, more air, air This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and weather» of the physics 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 (Blowing, gentle blowing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:015-wind-and-weather.lesson:17 # text = Blowing out a candle pushes the flame's hot gas away from the wick, while very gentle blowing can bring more air and make it brighter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 015-wind-and-weather.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Blowing blow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wick wick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 blowing blowing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow out** | gerund | | a candle | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient | | 2 | **push** | present | Blowing | the flame's hot gas | | the wick | | away *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent gas=Theme from wick=Trajectory | | 3 | **bring** | can | gentle blowing | more air | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | gentle blowing *not said here* | air | | | | bright *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:physics:015-wind-and-weather.lesson:17`. **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): 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: [Wind and weather, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/16/) - next →: [Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacu…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/16-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/)