Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 13
A ring-pull is a little lever fixed to the lid; stay-on tabs were invented in the 1970s because old pull-off tabs littered beaches; small caps are a choking danger for babies.
Who acts: ring pull, old pull tabs, small caps · What happens: be, fix, stay on, invent, litter, choke · To what, where: little lever, stay tabs, 1970s, beaches, choking danger
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 (ring pull, old pull tabs, small caps), 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 pull | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ring | punct |
| 4 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lever | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lever | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lever | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lever | amod |
| 8 | lever | lever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invented | parataxis |
| 9 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lever | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 lid | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lid | det |
| 12 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fixed | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 tabs | punct |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tabs | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 on | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 stay | compound:prt |
| 17 | tabs | tabs | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 invented | aux:pass |
| 19 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1970s | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 1970s | det |
| 22 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 19 invented | obl |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 littered | mark |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tabs | amod |
| 25 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tabs | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 pull | punct |
| 27 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pull | compound |
| 28 | tabs | tabs | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 littered | nsubj |
| 29 | littered | litter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 invented | advcl |
| 30 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 littered | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 caps | punct |
| 32 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 caps | amod |
| 33 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 danger | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 danger | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 danger | det |
| 36 | choking | choke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 danger | amod |
| 37 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invented | parataxis |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 babies | case |
| 39 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 danger | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lever | 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 | is a | present | a ring pull | a little lever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | a little lever not said here | to the lid | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to lid=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | stay on | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | invent | past · passive | stay tabs | the 1970s | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | litter | past | old pull tabs | beaches | vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Patient | ||||
| 6 | choke | gerund | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | is a | present | small caps | a choking danger | for babies | tree rules |
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:13.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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