--- title: For example, if you put a glass jar over a burning candle, the flame… — Air and why we need it · tree and pragmatics description: For example, if you put a glass jar over a burning candle, the flame soon goes out, because it has used up much of the oxygen inside. Who acts: you, flame. 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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 (you, flame), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.lesson:5 # text = For example, if you put a glass jar over a burning candle, the flame soon goes out, because it has used up much of the oxygen inside. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 put put VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 18 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 inside inside ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a glass jar | | a burning candle | | for example | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jar=Theme over candle=Destination | | 2 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go out** | present | the flame | | | | | soon *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **use up** | present · perfect | flame | much of the oxygen | | | | inside *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | 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:world:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.lesson:5`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Air and why we need it, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/4/) - next →: [Air and why we need it, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/)