What a child can do for nature, sentence 17
Saving food, water and energy and reusing bottles and bags means less land cleared and less pollution.
Who acts: Saving · What happens: save, reuse, mean, clear · To what, where: food, bottles, less land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» of the biology 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 (Saving), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 means | csubj |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saving | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 food | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 energy | cc |
| 6 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 food | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 reusing | cc |
| 8 | reusing | reuse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Saving | conj |
| 9 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reusing | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bags | cc |
| 11 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bottles | conj |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 land | amod |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obj |
| 15 | cleared | clear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 land | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pollution | cc |
| 17 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 pollution | amod |
| 18 | pollution | pollution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 land | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | gerund | food and water and energy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reuse | gerund | bottles and bags | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Asset | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | Saving | less land and less pollution | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic | ||||
| 4 | clear | participle | less land and less pollution not said here | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
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, 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:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.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): 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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