Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 15
In a sorting plant magnets pull out steel, a spinning magnet pushes aluminium cans off the belt even though aluminium is not magnetic, and air jets with cameras pick out the plastics.
Who acts: magnets, spinning magnet, aluminium, air jets · What happens: pull out, spin, push, not be, pick out · To what, where: steel, sorting plant, aluminium cans, belt, plastics
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 (magnets, spinning magnet, aluminium, air jets), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 plant | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 plant | det |
| 3 | sorting | sorting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plant | compound |
| 4 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | obl |
| 5 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pull | nsubj |
| 6 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 pull | compound:prt |
| 8 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pushes | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 magnet | det |
| 11 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 magnet | compound |
| 12 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushes | nsubj |
| 13 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pull | conj |
| 14 | aluminium | aluminium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cans | compound |
| 15 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pushes | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 belt | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 belt | det |
| 18 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushes | obl |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 magnetic | advmod |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 magnetic | mark |
| 21 | aluminium | aluminium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 magnetic | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 magnetic | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 magnetic | advmod |
| 24 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pushes | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pick | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pick | cc |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 jets | compound |
| 28 | jets | jet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pick | nsubj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 cameras | case |
| 30 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 jets | nmod |
| 31 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pushes | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 pick | compound:prt |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 plastics | det |
| 34 | plastics | plastic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pick | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | present | magnets | steel | a sorting plant | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | push | present | a spinning magnet | aluminium cans | the belt | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent can=Theme off belt=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | not is | present | aluminium | magnetic property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pick out | present | air jets with cameras | the plastics | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.
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