Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 6

Plastic dropped as litter can last hundreds of years, so plastic bottles should go in the recycling.

Who acts: Plastic, litter, plastic bottles · What happens: drop, last, go · To what, where: hundreds, recycling

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 (Plastic, litter, plastic bottles), 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	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 last	mark
4	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 last	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 last	aux
6	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dropped	advcl
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 last	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hundreds	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
12	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bottles	amod
13	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 go	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dropped	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 recycling	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 recycling	det
18	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drop	past	Plastic			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	last	can	litter	hundreds of years		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hundred=Value
3	go	should	plastic bottles		the recycling	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in recycling=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:6.

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): no change. 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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