Caring for the environment, sentence 4
Plastic is a big problem because it takes hundreds of years to break down.
Who acts: Plastic, it · What happens: be, take, break down · To what, where: big problem, 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, it), 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 | 5 problem | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 problem | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 problem | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 problem | amod |
| 5 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 takes | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 takes | nsubj |
| 8 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 problem | advcl |
| 9 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 takes | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hundreds | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 break | mark |
| 13 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 takes | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 break | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 problem | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Plastic | a big problem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | it | hundreds of years | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break down | to-infinitive | 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:4.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/4/