Batteries, sentence 14
Old batteries go in a special recycling bin so their metals can be used again and their chemicals stay out of landfill; batteries thrown in normal bins have started fires in bin lorries.
Who acts: Old batteries, chemicals, batteries · What happens: go, use, stay out, throw, start · To what, where: special recycling bin, metals, landfill, batteries, normal bins, fires
This is a sentence of the lesson «Batteries» of the technology 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 (Old batteries, chemicals, 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 batteries | amod |
| 2 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bin | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bin | det |
| 6 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bin | amod |
| 7 | recycling | recycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bin | compound |
| 8 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 used | mark |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 metals | nmod:poss |
| 11 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 used | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 used | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 used | aux:pass |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 go | advcl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 used | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stay | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 chemicals | nmod:poss |
| 18 | chemicals | chemical | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stay | nsubj |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 used | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 landfill | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 landfill | case |
| 22 | landfill | landfill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stay | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 batteries | punct |
| 24 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 started | nsubj |
| 25 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 batteries | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 bins | case |
| 27 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bins | amod |
| 28 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 thrown | obl |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 started | aux |
| 30 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 go | parataxis |
| 31 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 started | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 lorries | case |
| 33 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lorries | compound |
| 34 | lorries | lorry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fires | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Old batteries | a special recycling bin | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bin=Location | ||||
| 2 | use | can · passive | panels's metals | again | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stay out | present | panels's chemicals | landfill | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme landfill=Location | ||||
| 4 | throw | participle | batteries not said here | normal bins | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in bin=Destination | ||||
| 5 | start | present · perfect | batteries | fires | bin lorries | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality |
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:technology:034-batteries.lesson:14.
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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