Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 18
Plastic itself is very useful; the big problem is plastic thrown away where it does not belong.
Who acts: Plastic, big problem, problem · What happens: be, throw away, not belong · To what, where: plastic
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, big problem, problem), 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 | 5 useful | nsubj |
| 2 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 Plastic | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 useful | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 useful | advmod |
| 5 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 useful | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 problem | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 problem | amod |
| 9 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plastic | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 plastic | cop |
| 11 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 useful | parataxis |
| 12 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 plastic | acl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 thrown | advmod |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 belong | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 belong | nsubj |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 belong | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 belong | advmod |
| 18 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thrown | advcl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 useful | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Plastic silk | useful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the big problem | plastic | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw away | participle | plastic not said here | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not belong | present · do-support | problem | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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:18.
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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