Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 10

Plastic lasts hundreds of years and slowly breaks into tiny pieces called microplastics, because few microbes can eat it.

Who acts: Plastic, tiny pieces, few microbes · What happens: last, break, call, eat · To what, where: hundreds, tiny pieces, microplastics, kind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plastics: useful and stubborn» of the chemistry 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 (Plastic, tiny pieces, few microbes), 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	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lasts	nsubj
2	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lasts	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 breaks	cc
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 breaks	advmod
8	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lasts	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pieces	amod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 breaks	obl
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 pieces	acl
13	microplastics	microplastic	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 called	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 eat	mark
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 microbes	amod
17	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	aux
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 breaks	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eat	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lasts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	last	present	Plastic	hundreds of years		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hundred=Value
2	break	present	Plastic not said here		into tiny pieces result; slowly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result
3	call	participle	tiny pieces not said here	microplastics		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	can	few microbes	kind		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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, 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:029-plastics-useful-stubborn.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): R5-strong ×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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