--- title: The number inside a little triangle of arrows on a plastic item tell… — Plastics: useful and stubborn · tree and pragmatics description: The number inside a little triangle of arrows on a plastic item tells which kind of plastic it is; it helps sorting, but not every kind is recycled everywhere. Who acts: number. 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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 (number), 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:9 # text = The number inside a little triangle of arrows on a plastic item tells which kind of plastic it is; it helps sorting, but not every kind is recycled everywhere. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 inside inside ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 triangle triangle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 item item NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 13 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 15 det _ _ 15 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 23 sorting sort VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 27 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 recycled recycle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 31 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the number inside a little triangle of arrows on a plastic item | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | which kind | | | | of plastic | tree rules | | 3 | **help** | present | number | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **sort** | gerund | number *not said here* | | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **recycle** | present · passive | | every kind | | | | everywhere *property* | 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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/8/) - next →: [Plastics: useful and stubborn, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/)