--- title: Paper is soaked, mashed into pulp and pressed into new paper; its fi… — Recycling: giving materials a second life · tree and pragmatics description: Paper is soaked, mashed into pulp and pressed into new paper; its fibres get shorter each time, so paper can be recycled only a few times. Who acts: fibres. 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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 (fibres), 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:10 # text = Paper is soaked, mashed into pulp and pressed into new paper; its fibres get shorter each time, so paper can be recycled only a few times. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 soaked soak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 mashed mash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 pulp pulp NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 22 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 recycled recycle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soak** | present · passive | | Paper | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | | 2 | **mash** | participle | | | | pulp | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **press** | participle | | | | new paper | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into paper=Trajectory | | 4 | **get** | present | paper's fibres | | | | time | short *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **recycle** | can · passive | | paper | | | time | | 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:032-recycling-second-life.lesson:10`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×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: [Recycling: giving materials a second l…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/9/) - next →: [Recycling: giving materials a second l…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/)