Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 13
Recycling means making new things from used materials such as paper, glass, metal and plastic.
Who acts: Recycling · What happens: mean, make, use · To what, where: new things, used materials
This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world 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 (Recycling), 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 | Recycling | recycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 making | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 materials | case |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 materials | amod |
| 8 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 making | obl |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 paper | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 materials | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glass | punct |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paper | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 metal | punct |
| 15 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paper | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 plastic | cc |
| 17 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paper | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Recycling | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | gerund | Recycling not said here | new things | used materials such paper and glass and metal and plastic | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset thing=Product from material=Material | |||
| 3 | use | participle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:world:047-natural-resources.lesson:13.
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, R5-strong ×1, 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.
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