Phones and computer chips, sentence 16
Old phones are taken apart, their batteries removed safely and their metals melted out and reused; phones and batteries must never go in the household bin because they can catch fire.
Who acts: batteries, phones, metals · What happens: take apart, remove, melt out, reuse, not go, catch · To what, where: Old phones, metals, household bin, fire
This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» 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, phones, metals), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 phones | amod |
| 2 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 removed | punct |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 batteries | nmod:poss |
| 8 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 removed | nsubj |
| 9 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 10 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 9 removed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 melted | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 metals | nmod:poss |
| 13 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 melted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 melted | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reused | cc |
| 17 | reused | reuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 melted | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 19 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 go | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 batteries | cc |
| 21 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 phones | conj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 go | advmod |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 taken | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 bin | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bin | det |
| 27 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bin | compound |
| 28 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 32 catch | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 catch | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 catch | aux |
| 32 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 go | advcl |
| 33 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 catch | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take apart | present · passive | Old phones | apart property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remove | participle | labs's batteries | safely property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | melt out | past · passive | batteries's metals | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | reuse | participle | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not go | must | phones and batteries | the household bin | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bin=Location | ||||
| 6 | catch | can | metals = metal | fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
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:009-phones-and-computer-chips.lesson:16.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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