Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 4
Batteries thrown in with the recycling can start fires in lorries and plants, so they go in special battery bins instead.
Who acts: Batteries · What happens: throw, start, go · To what, where: Batteries, fires, lorries, special battery bins
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 (Batteries), 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 | Batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 start | nsubj |
| 2 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Batteries | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 thrown | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 recycling | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 recycling | det |
| 6 | recycling | recycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrown | obl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 start | aux |
| 8 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 start | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lorries | case |
| 11 | lorries | lorry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fires | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 plants | cc |
| 13 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lorries | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 start | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bins | case |
| 19 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bins | amod |
| 20 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bins | compound |
| 21 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | participle | Batteries not said here | with the recycling | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | start | can | Batteries | fires | lorries and plants | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | go | present | Batteries = battery | special battery bins | instead property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bin=Location |
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:4.
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): 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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