Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 3
When you drop a can in the recycling, it rides belts in a sorting plant where magnets, air jets and cameras split it from paper, plastic and steel, and it can be back on a shop shelf as a new can in about two months.
Who acts: you, can, magnets · What happens: drop, ride, split, be · To what, where: can, recycling, belts, sorting plant, shop shelf
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 (you, can, magnets), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 drop | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 drop | nsubj |
| 3 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rides | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 can | det |
| 5 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drop | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 recycling | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 recycling | det |
| 8 | recycling | recycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drop | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drop | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rides | nsubj |
| 11 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rides | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 plant | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 plant | det |
| 15 | sorting | sorting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plant | compound |
| 16 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rides | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 split | advmod |
| 18 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 split | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 jets | punct |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jets | compound |
| 21 | jets | jet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 magnets | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cameras | cc |
| 23 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 magnets | conj |
| 24 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 plant | acl:relcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 split | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 paper | case |
| 27 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 split | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 plastic | punct |
| 29 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 paper | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 steel | cc |
| 31 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 paper | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 shelf | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 shelf | cc |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 shelf | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 shelf | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 shelf | cop |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 41 shelf | advmod |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 shelf | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 shelf | det |
| 40 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 shelf | compound |
| 41 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rides | obl |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 can | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 can | det |
| 44 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 can | amod |
| 45 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 shelf | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 months | case |
| 47 | about | about | ADV | _ | 48 two | advmod |
| 48 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 months | nummod |
| 49 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 can | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rides | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | you | a can | the recycling | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent can=Theme in recycling=Destination | |||
| 2 | ride | present | can | belts | a sorting plant | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent belt=Location | |||
| 3 | split | present | magnets and air jets and cameras | can | from paper and plastic and steel | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from paper=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | is | can | can | a shop shelf | as a new can in two months | 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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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