Recycling, waste and plastic, sentence 23
Plastic breaks into tiny pieces called microplastics instead of rotting away.
Who acts: Plastic, tiny pieces · What happens: break, call, rot away · To what, where: tiny pieces, microplastics · 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, tiny 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 | 2 breaks | nsubj |
| 2 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 pieces | case |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pieces | amod |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 breaks | obl |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pieces | acl |
| 7 | microplastics | microplastic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | obj |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 rotting | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 instead | fixed |
| 10 | rotting | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 breaks | advcl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 rotting | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Plastic | into tiny pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | tiny pieces not said here | microplastics | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent microplastic=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | rot away | gerund | Plastic not said here | away property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «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:088-recycling-waste-plastic.lesson:23.
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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