--- title: Many plastics soften when heated, because heat lets the chains move;… — Plastics: useful and stubborn · tree and pragmatics description: Many plastics soften when heated, because heat lets the chains move; burning plastic gives off poisonous fumes. Who acts: Many plastics, heat, chains, burning plastic. A sentence of the lesson «Plastics: useful and stubborn» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Plastics: useful and stubborn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/) / 13 # Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 13 Many plastics soften when heated, because heat lets the chains move; burning plastic gives off poisonous fumes. **Who acts:** Many plastics, heat, chains, burning plastic · **What happens:** soften, heat, let, move, burn, give off · **To what, where:** chains, poisonous fumes This is a sentence of the lesson «Plastics: useful and stubborn» of the chemistry 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 (Many plastics, heat, chains, burning plastic), 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:13 # text = Many plastics soften when heated, because heat lets the chains move; burning plastic gives off poisonous fumes. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 plastics plastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 3 soften soften VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 5 heated heat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 fumes fume NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soften** | present | Many plastics | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **heat** | participle | Many plastics *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **let** | present | heat | the chains | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **move** | infinitive | the chains *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **give off** | present | burning plastic | poisonous fumes | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source fume=Theme | 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:13`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/12/) - next →: [Plastics: useful and stubborn, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/)