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title: Long chains make plastics bendy, tough and light. — Plastics: useful and stubborn · tree and pragmatics
description: Long chains make plastics bendy, tough and light. Who acts: Long chains. 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.
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# Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 2

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Long chains make plastics bendy, tough and light.

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**Who acts:** Long chains · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** plastics

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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 (Long chains), 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:2
# text = Long chains make plastics bendy, tough and light.
# 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): no change
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	plastics	plastic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	bendy	bendy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | present | Long chains | plastics |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plastic=Product |

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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:chemistry:029-plastics-useful-stubborn.lesson:2`.

**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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