Recycling: giving materials a second life, sentence 8

An aluminium can can be recycled and be back on the shelf within about two months, and melting old cans needs far less energy than making aluminium from rock.

Who acts: melting · What happens: recycle, be, melt, need, make · To what, where: aluminium can, shelf, old cans, less energy, aluminium, 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: who acts (melting), 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	3 can	det
2	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 can	compound
3	can	can	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recycled	nsubj:pass
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 recycled	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 recycled	aux:pass
6	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shelf	cc
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 shelf	cop
9	back	back	ADV	_	12 shelf	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 shelf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shelf	det
12	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recycled	conj
13	within	within	ADP	_	16 months	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 two	advmod
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 months	nummod
16	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shelf	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 needs	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 needs	cc
19	melting	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 needs	csubj
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cans	amod
21	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 melting	obj
22	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 recycled	conj
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 less	advmod
24	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 energy	amod
25	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needs	obj
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 making	mark
27	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 energy	advcl
28	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 making	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 rock	case
30	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 making	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 recycled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	recycle	can · passive		a aluminium can			tree rules
2	is	infinitive			the shelf	month	tree rules
3	melt	gerund		old cans			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient can=Result
4	need	present	melting	less energy			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot energy=Theme
5	make	gerund	melting not said here	aluminium	rock		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset aluminium=Product from rock=Material

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:8.

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): R7-rel-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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