Caring for the environment, sentence 7
Recycling an aluminium can saves most of the energy needed to make a new one.
Who acts: Recycling · What happens: recycle, save, need, make · To what, where: aluminium can, most, energy, new one
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 (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 | recycle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saves | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 can | det |
| 3 | aluminium | aluminium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 can | compound |
| 4 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Recycling | obj |
| 5 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 saves | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 energy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 energy | det |
| 9 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 most | nmod |
| 10 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 energy | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 needed | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recycle | gerund | a aluminium can | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | save | present | Recycling | most of the energy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | participle | the energy not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | a new one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |
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:7.
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): R7-rel-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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