Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 16
Reduce, reuse, recycle: use less, use things again, and turn waste into new materials.
Who acts: you · What happens: reduce, reuse, recycle, use, turn · To what, where: things, waste, new 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 (you), 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 | Reduce | reduce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reuse | punct |
| 3 | reuse | reuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Reduce | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 recycle | punct |
| 5 | recycle | recycle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Reduce | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 recycle | parataxis |
| 8 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 use | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 use | punct |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 use | conj |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 use | obj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 use | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turn | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turn | cc |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Reduce | conj |
| 16 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 materials | case |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 materials | amod |
| 19 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 turn | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Reduce | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | imperative | you not said here | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 2 | reuse | infinitive | you not said here | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | recycle | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | use | infinitive | less property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | use | infinitive | things | again | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 6 | turn | infinitive | you not said here | waste | new materials | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent waste=Theme into material=Trajectory |
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: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): 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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