Recycling: giving materials a second life, sentence 17

In landfill, rubbish rots without air and bacteria make methane, a gas that warms the planet; some landfills collect it to make electricity.

Who acts: rubbish, bacteria, gas, landfills · What happens: rot, make, warm, collect · To what, where: landfill, methane, planet, electricity

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 (rubbish, bacteria, gas, landfills), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 landfill	case
2	landfill	landfill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rots	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rots	punct
4	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rots	nsubj
5	rots	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 collect	parataxis
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 air	case
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rots	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
9	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rots	conj
11	methane	methane	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gas	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 gas	det
14	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 methane	appos
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 warms	nsubj
16	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gas	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 planet	det
18	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 warms	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 collect	punct
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 landfills	det
21	landfills	landfill	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 collect	nsubj
22	collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 collect	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 collect	advcl
26	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 collect	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rot	present	rubbish		landfill	without air	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	present	bacteria	methane			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset methane=Product
3	warm	present	a gas	the planet			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent planet=Patient
4	collect	present	some landfills	planet			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	some landfills not said here	electricity			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product

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:17.

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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