Recycling: giving materials a second life, sentence 10

Paper is soaked, mashed into pulp and pressed into new paper; its fibres get shorter each time, so paper can be recycled only a few times.

Who acts: fibres · What happens: soak, mash, press, get, recycle · To what, where: Paper, pulp, new paper

This is a sentence of the lesson «Recycling: giving materials a second life» 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 (fibres), 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	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soaked	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soaked	aux:pass
3	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mashed	punct
5	mashed	mash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 soaked	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 pulp	case
7	pulp	pulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mashed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pressed	cc
9	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mashed	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 paper	case
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 paper	amod
12	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pressed	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fibres	nmod:poss
15	fibres	fibre	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 get	nsubj
16	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soaked	conj
17	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 get	xcomp
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 recycled	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 recycled	advmod
22	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 recycled	nsubj:pass
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 recycled	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 recycled	aux:pass
25	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 soaked	conj
26	only	only	ADV	_	29 times	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 times	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 times	amod
29	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 recycled	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 soaked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	present · passive		Paper				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	mash	participle			pulp			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	press	participle			new paper			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into paper=Trajectory
4	get	present	paper's fibres			time	short property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	recycle	can · passive		paper		time		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:032-recycling-second-life.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): R8-pos-agree ×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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