--- title: Some new plastics are made from plants such as corn or sugar cane; s… — Plastics: useful and stubborn · tree and pragmatics description: Some new plastics are made from plants such as corn or sugar cane; some of these can be composted, but only in special hot composters. A sentence of the lesson «Plastics: useful and stubborn» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 15 Some new plastics are made from plants such as corn or sugar cane; some of these can be composted, but only in special hot composters. **What happens:** make, compost · **To what, where:** new plastics, plants, some 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: 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:15 # text = Some new plastics are made from plants such as corn or sugar cane; some of these can be composted, but only in special hot composters. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 plastics plastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 10 case _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 cane cane NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 15 nmod _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 composted compost VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 composters composter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | some new plastics | | plants such corn or sugar cane | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from plant=Material | | 2 | **compost** | can · passive | | some | | | | | tree rules | 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:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/14/) - next →: [Plastics: useful and stubborn, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/)