Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 0

A plastic drinks bottle starts life as a little plastic tube about the size of your finger, which is heated and blown up like a balloon inside a bottle-shaped mould in about a second.

Who acts: plastic drinks bottle · What happens: start, heat, blow up · To what, where: life, little plastic tube, shaped mould

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bottles, cans and recycling» 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 (plastic drinks bottle), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bottle	det
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bottle	amod
3	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bottle	compound
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	nsubj
5	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	11 tube	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tube	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tube	amod
10	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tube	amod
11	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	obl
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 size	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 size	det
14	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tube	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 finger	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 finger	nmod:poss
17	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 size	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heated	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 heated	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 heated	aux:pass
21	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tube	acl:relcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 blown	cc
23	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 heated	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 blown	compound:prt
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 balloon	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 balloon	det
27	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blown	obl
28	inside	inside	ADP	_	33 mould	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mould	det
30	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shaped	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 bottle	punct
32	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 mould	amod
33	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blown	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 second	case
35	about	about	ADV	_	37 second	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 second	det
37	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blown	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 starts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	a plastic drinks bottle	life			as a little plastic tube about the size of your finger	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
2	heat	present · passive		a little plastic tube about the size of your finger				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	blow up	participle			a shaped mould	second	like a balloon	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:technology:004-bottles-cans-and-recycling.lesson:0.

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. 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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