--- title: Most plastics are made from oil, but nature has its own chains too:… — Plastics: useful and stubborn · tree and pragmatics description: Most plastics are made from oil, but nature has its own chains too: rubber comes from the sap of rubber trees, and some new plastics are made from corn or sugar cane. Who acts: nature, rubber. 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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 (nature, rubber), 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:5 # text = Most plastics are made from oil, but nature has its own chains too: rubber comes from the sap of rubber trees, and some new plastics are made from corn or sugar cane. # 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 ×3, R3-conj-first ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 plastics plastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 9 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sap sap NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 27 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 plastics plastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=32:cc 34 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 cane cane NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | | Most plastics | | oil | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from oil=Material | | 2 | **have** | present | nature | nature's own chains | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient | | 3 | **come** | present | rubber | | | the sap of rubber trees | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sap=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **make** | present · passive | | some new plastics | | corn or sugar cane | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from corn=Material | 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:5`. **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 ×3, R3-conj-first ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/4/) - next →: [Plastics: useful and stubborn, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/)