The environment, sentence 10
Reducing usually helps most, because what is never made never needs to be thrown away.
What happens: reduce, help, not make, not need, throw away
This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics 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 | Reducing | reduce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 helps | advmod |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 helps | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 needs | mark |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 made | advmod |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 helps | advcl |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 needs | advmod |
| 12 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 helps | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 thrown | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thrown | aux:pass |
| 15 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 needs | xcomp |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 thrown | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | 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 | reduce | gerund | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 2 | help | present | usually property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not make | present · passive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||||
| 4 | not need | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | throw away not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:10.
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 ×2. 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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