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title: Saving food, water and energy and reusing bottles and bags means les… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Saving food, water and energy and reusing bottles and bags means less land cleared and less pollution. Who acts: Saving. A sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What a child can do for nature, sentence 17

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Saving food, water and energy and reusing bottles and bags means less land cleared and less pollution.

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**Who acts:** Saving · **What happens:** save, reuse, mean, clear · **To what, where:** food, bottles, less land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» of the biology 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 (Saving), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:17
# text = Saving food, water and energy and reusing bottles and bags means less land cleared and less pollution.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	reusing	reuse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
9	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	cleared	clear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	pollution	pollution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | gerund |  | food and water and energy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 2 | **reuse** | gerund |  | bottles and bags |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Asset |
| 3 | **mean** | present | Saving | less land and less pollution |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
| 4 | **clear** | participle |  | less land and less pollution *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:17`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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