The environment, sentence 9
The three Rs are reduce (use less), reuse (use things again) and recycle (turn old materials into new things).
Who acts: three Rs · What happens: reduce, use, reuse, recycle, turn · To what, where: things, old materials, new things
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: who acts (three Rs), 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 Rs | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Rs | nummod |
| 3 | Rs | r | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reduce | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reduce | aux |
| 5 | reduce | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reduce | parataxis |
| 8 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 use | advmod |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reuse | punct |
| 11 | reuse | reuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 use | parataxis |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 use | punct |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reuse | xcomp |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 use | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 use | advmod |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 use | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 recycle | cc |
| 18 | recycle | recycle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reuse | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 turn | punct |
| 20 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 recycle | parataxis |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 materials | amod |
| 22 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 turn | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 things | case |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 things | amod |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 turn | obl |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 turn | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reduce | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | present | the three Rs | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 2 | use | infinitive | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | reuse | infinitive | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Goal | ||||||
| 4 | use | infinitive | things | again | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | recycle | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | turn | infinitive | old materials | new things | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent material=Theme into thing=Trajectory |
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:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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