--- title: Plastics are useful everywhere, from hospitals to raincoats, but the… — Plastics: useful and stubborn · tree and pragmatics description: Plastics are useful everywhere, from hospitals to raincoats, but they are stubborn: they last for hundreds of years, and in the sea they break into tiny bits instead of disappearing. Who acts: Plastics, tiny bits. 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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 (Plastics, tiny bits), 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:4 # text = Plastics are useful everywhere, from hospitals to raincoats, but they are stubborn: they last for hundreds of years, and in the sea they break into tiny bits instead of disappearing. # 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 Plastics plastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 hospitals hospital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 raincoats raincoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 stubborn stubborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 last last VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 34 mark _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 disappearing disappear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Plastics | | | hospitals to raincoats | | everywhere, useful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | plastics *= plastic* | | | | | stubborn *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **last** | present | plastics *= plastic* | | | | | for hundreds of years | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **break** | present | plastics *= plastic* | | | the sea | | into tiny bits | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | | 5 | **disappear** | gerund | tiny bits *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [Plastics: useful and stubborn, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/3/) - next →: [Plastics: useful and stubborn, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/)