Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 1
A drinks can starts as a flat disc of aluminium punched into a cup and stretched tall, and a glass bottle starts as a glowing blob of melted sand and old glass blown into a mould.
Who acts: drinks can, glass bottle · What happens: start, punch, stretch, glow, melt, blow · To what, where: flat disc, cup, glowing blob, 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 (drinks can, glass 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 | 3 can | det |
| 2 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 can | compound |
| 3 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starts | nsubj |
| 4 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 disc | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 disc | det |
| 7 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 disc | amod |
| 8 | disc | disc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starts | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 aluminium | case |
| 10 | aluminium | aluminium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disc | nmod |
| 11 | punched | punch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 disc | acl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 cup | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cup | det |
| 14 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 punched | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stretched | cc |
| 16 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 starts | conj |
| 17 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stretched | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 starts | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 starts | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bottle | det |
| 21 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bottle | compound |
| 22 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 starts | nsubj |
| 23 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 starts | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 blob | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 blob | det |
| 26 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 blob | amod |
| 27 | blob | blob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 starts | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sand | case |
| 29 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 sand | amod |
| 30 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 blob | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 glass | cc |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 glass | amod |
| 33 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sand | conj |
| 34 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 blob | acl |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 mould | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 mould | det |
| 37 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 blown | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | a drinks can | as a flat disc of aluminium | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | punch | participle | a flat disc of aluminium not said here | a cup | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stretch | past | a drinks can not said here | tall property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | start | present | a glass bottle | as a glowing blob of melted sand and old glass | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | melt | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | blow | participle | a glowing blob of melted sand and old glass not said here | a mould | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into mould=Product |
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:1.
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 ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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