Recycling, waste and plastic, sentence 2
Rotting food in a landfill gives off methane, a gas that warms the planet.
Who acts: Rotting, gas · What happens: rot, give off, warm · To what, where: food, landfill, methane, planet
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 (Rotting, gas), 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 | Rotting | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 gives | csubj |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rotting | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 landfill | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 landfill | det |
| 5 | landfill | landfill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rotting | obl |
| 6 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 gives | compound:prt |
| 8 | methane | methane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gives | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gas | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gas | det |
| 11 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 methane | appos |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 warms | nsubj |
| 13 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gas | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 planet | det |
| 15 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warms | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rot | gerund | food | a landfill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give off | present | Rotting | methane | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source methane=Theme | ||||
| 3 | warm | present | a gas | the planet | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent planet=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:088-recycling-waste-plastic.lesson:2.
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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