Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★, sentence 19

The best order for less waste is reduce, then reuse, then recycle; glass and aluminium can be recycled again and again, paper only a few times, and batteries go in special collection boxes.

Who acts: best order, batteries · What happens: be, reuse, recycle, go · To what, where: glass, special collection boxes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» 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 (best order, batteries), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 order	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 order	amod
3	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reduce	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 waste	case
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 waste	amod
6	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 order	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reduce	cop
8	reduce	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reuse	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 reuse	advmod
11	reuse	reuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 reduce	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 recycle	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 recycle	advmod
14	recycle	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 reduce	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 recycled	punct
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 recycled	nsubj:pass
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 aluminium	cc
18	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 glass	conj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 recycled	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 recycled	aux:pass
21	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 reduce	conj
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 recycled	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 again	cc
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 again	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 paper	punct
26	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 recycled	conj
27	only	only	ADV	_	30 times	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 times	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 times	amod
30	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reuse	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 go	cc
33	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 go	nsubj
34	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reduce	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 boxes	case
36	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 boxes	amod
37	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 boxes	compound
38	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 go	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 reduce	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the best order for less waste				reduce property	tree rules
2	reuse	infinitive	the best order for less waste not said here			then; time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	recycle	infinitive	the best order for less waste not said here			then		tree rules
4	recycle	can · passive		glass and aluminium		again		tree rules
5	go	present	batteries		special collection boxes			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in box=Location

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:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:19.

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. 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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