Recycling, waste and plastic, sentence 11

Plastic does not rot away; sunlight and waves break it into smaller and smaller pieces called microplastics, which are now found from deep oceans to Arctic snow.

Who acts: Plastic, sunlight, smaller pieces · What happens: not rot away, break, call, find · To what, where: plastic, smaller pieces, microplastics, deep oceans · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Recycling, waste and plastic» 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, sunlight, smaller pieces), 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	4 rot	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rot	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rot	advmod
4	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 rot	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 break	punct
7	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 break	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 waves	cc
9	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sunlight	conj
10	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rot	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 break	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	16 pieces	case
13	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 pieces	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pieces	cc
15	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 smaller	conj
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 break	obl
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 pieces	acl
18	microplastics	microplastic	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 called	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 found	nsubj:pass
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux
22	now	now	ADV	_	23 found	advmod
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 pieces	acl:relcl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 oceans	case
25	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 oceans	amod
26	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 found	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 snow	case
28	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 snow	amod
29	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 oceans	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rot	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rot away	present · do-support	Plastic				away property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	break	present	sunlight and waves	plastic			into smaller pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into piece=Result
3	call	participle	smaller pieces not said here	microplastics				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	present · passive		smaller pieces	deep oceans to Arctic snow	now		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from ocean=Source

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:088-recycling-waste-plastic.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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