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title: After dinner you rinse a tin, flatten a cereal box and drop a bottle… — Recycling: giving materials a second life · tree and pragmatics
description: After dinner you rinse a tin, flatten a cereal box and drop a bottle into the right bin. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Recycling: giving materials a second life» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Recycling: giving materials a second life, sentence 0

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After dinner you rinse a tin, flatten a cereal box and drop a bottle into the right bin.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** rinse, flatten, drop · **To what, where:** tin, cereal box, bottle, right bin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Recycling: giving materials a second life» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:032-recycling-second-life.lesson:0
# text = After dinner you rinse a tin, flatten a cereal box and drop a bottle into the right bin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 032-recycling-second-life.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rinse	rinse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
8	flatten	flatten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drop	drop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **rinse** | present | you | a tin |  |  | after dinner |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tin=Source |
| 2 | **flatten** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a cereal box |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient |
| 3 | **drop** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a bottle |  | the right bin |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme into bin=Destination |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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