Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 4

Plastics are useful everywhere, from hospitals to raincoats, but they are stubborn: they last for hundreds of years, and in the sea they break into tiny bits instead of disappearing.

Who acts: Plastics, tiny bits · What happens: be, last, break, disappear · To what, where: hospitals, sea

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 (Plastics, tiny bits), 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	Plastics	plastic	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 useful	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 useful	cop
3	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 useful	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 useful	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 hospitals	case
7	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 useful	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 raincoats	case
9	raincoats	raincoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hospitals	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stubborn	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 stubborn	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stubborn	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 stubborn	cop
14	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 useful	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 last	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 last	nsubj
17	last	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 stubborn	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 hundreds	case
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 last	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 years	case
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hundreds	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 break	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 break	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 break	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 break	nsubj
28	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 useful	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 bits	case
30	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bits	amod
31	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 break	obl
32	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 disappearing	mark
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 instead	fixed
34	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 bits	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 useful	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Plastics	hospitals to raincoats	everywhere, useful property	tree rules
2	is	present	plastics = plastic		stubborn property	tree rules
3	last	present	plastics = plastic		for hundreds of years	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	break	present	plastics = plastic	the sea	into tiny bits	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
5	disappear	gerund	tiny bits not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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:4.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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