Recycling: giving materials a second life, sentence 2
An aluminium drinks can is melted down and can be a new can back in the shop within about two months, using far less energy than digging up new rock.
What happens: melt down, be, use, dig up · To what, where: aluminium drinks can, new can, less energy, new rock
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: 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 can | det |
| 2 | aluminium | aluminium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 can | compound |
| 3 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 can | compound |
| 4 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 melted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 melted | aux:pass |
| 6 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 melted | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 can | cc |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 can | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 can | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 can | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 can | amod |
| 13 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 melted | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 can | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shop | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shop | det |
| 17 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 back | obl |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 21 months | case |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 two | advmod |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 months | nummod |
| 21 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 melted | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 using | punct |
| 23 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 melted | conj |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 less | advmod |
| 25 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 energy | amod |
| 26 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 using | obj |
| 27 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 28 digging | mark |
| 28 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 using | advcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 digging | compound:prt |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 rock | amod |
| 31 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 digging | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 melted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt down | present · passive | a aluminium drinks can | month | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | can | a new can | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | use | gerund | less energy | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | |||||
| 4 | dig up | gerund | new rock | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=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:032-recycling-second-life.lesson:2.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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