Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 24
Plastics spread from the 1950s; they are cheap, light and clean, but plastic waste now fills oceans and beaches.
Who acts: Plastics, Workers, plastic waste · What happens: spread, be, fill · To what, where: 1950s, oceans
This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history 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 (Plastics, Workers, plastic waste), 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 | Plastics | plastic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 1950s | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 1950s | det |
| 5 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 2 spread | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 cheap | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cheap | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cheap | cop |
| 9 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spread | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 light | punct |
| 11 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cheap | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clean | cc |
| 13 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cheap | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fills | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 fills | cc |
| 16 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 waste | amod |
| 17 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fills | nsubj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | _ | 19 fills | advmod |
| 19 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cheap | conj |
| 20 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fills | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beaches | cc |
| 22 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 oceans | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | Plastics | the 1950s | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Workers = worker | cheap property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Workers = worker not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | Workers = worker not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | fill | present | plastic waste | oceans and beaches | now | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ocean=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:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:24.
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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