Caring for the environment, sentence 11
Plastic can take hundreds of years to break down.
Who acts: Plastic · What happens: take, break down · To what, where: hundreds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» 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 (Plastic), 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 | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hundreds | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 break | mark |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 break | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | Plastic | hundreds of years | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break down | to-infinitive | Plastic not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:057-environment.lesson:11.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/11/