--- title: They feel different, but all are plastics, made of very long chain m… — Plastics: useful and stubborn · tree and pragmatics description: They feel different, but all are plastics, made of very long chain molecules called polymers, like thousands of paperclips clipped into one chain. Who acts: bottle, all, long chain molecules. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottle, all, long chain molecules), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:029-plastics-useful-stubborn.lesson:1 # text = They feel different, but all are plastics, made of very long chain molecules called polymers, like thousands of paperclips clipped into one chain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 029-plastics-useful-stubborn.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:det 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 plastics plastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 molecules molecule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 polymers polymer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 like like SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 paperclips paperclip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 clipped clip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | bottle | | | | | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | all | plastics | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | participle | | plastics *not said here* | | | | of long chain molecules | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **call** | participle | long chain molecules *not said here* | polymers | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **clip** | participle · passive | | thousands of paperclips | | | | into one chain *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into chain=Result | 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](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:chemistry:029-plastics-useful-stubborn.lesson:1`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Plastics: useful and stubborn, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/0/) - next →: [Plastics: useful and stubborn, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/)