Recycling, waste and plastic, sentence 6
Paper can be recycled only a few times, because its fibres get shorter each time.
Who acts: fibres · What happens: recycle, get · To what, where: Paper
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 (fibres), 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 | Paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recycled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 recycled | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 recycled | aux:pass |
| 4 | recycled | recycle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 times | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 times | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 times | amod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 recycled | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fibres | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fibres | fibre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 get | nsubj |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 recycled | advcl |
| 14 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 get | xcomp |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recycled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recycle | can · passive | Paper | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Paper's fibres | time | short property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:6.
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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