Recycling: giving materials a second life, sentence 12

Old clothes can be passed on, sold second-hand or shredded into stuffing; clothes of mixed fibres are hard to recycle, and making new clothes uses lots of water.

Who acts: clothes, making · What happens: pass on, sell, shred, mix, be, recycle · To what, where: Old clothes, second hand, stuffing, new clothes, lots

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 (clothes, making), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clothes	amod
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 passed	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 passed	aux:pass
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 passed	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sold	punct
8	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 passed	conj
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 hand	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 second	punct
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sold	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 shredded	cc
13	shredded	shred	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sold	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 stuffing	case
15	stuffing	stuffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shredded	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 clothes	punct
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 hard	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 fibres	case
19	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fibres	amod
20	fibres	fibre	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 clothes	nmod
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hard	cop
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 passed	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 recycle	mark
24	recycle	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hard	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 uses	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 uses	cc
27	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 uses	csubj
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 clothes	amod
29	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	27 making	obj
30	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hard	conj
31	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 uses	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lots	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass on	can · passive		Old clothes		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	sell	participle		second hand		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	shred	participle			into stuffing result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into stuffing=Result
4	mix	participle				vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	is	present	clothes of mixed fibres		hard property	tree rules
6	recycle	to-infinitive	clothes of mixed fibres not said here			tree rules
7	make	gerund		new clothes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product
8	use	present	making	lots of water		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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:032-recycling-second-life.lesson:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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