Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 15
Some new plastics are made from plants such as corn or sugar cane; some of these can be composted, but only in special hot composters.
What happens: make, compost · To what, where: new plastics, plants, some
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 plastics | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plastics | amod |
| 3 | plastics | plastic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 plants | case |
| 7 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 corn | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plants | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 cane | cc |
| 12 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cane | compound |
| 13 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corn | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 composted | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 composted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 these | case |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 some | nmod |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 composted | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 composted | aux:pass |
| 20 | composted | compost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 made | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 composters | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 composters | cc |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 composters | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 composters | case |
| 25 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 composters | amod |
| 26 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 composters | amod |
| 27 | composters | composter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 composted | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | some new plastics | plants such corn or sugar cane | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from plant=Material | ||||
| 2 | compost | can · passive | some | tree rules |
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:15.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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