--- title: Old clothes can be passed on, sold second-hand or shredded into stuf… — Recycling: giving materials a second life · tree and pragmatics description: Old clothes can be passed on, sold second-hand or shredded into stuffing; clothes of mixed fibres are hard to recycle, and making new clothes uses lots of water. Who acts: clothes, making. 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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 (clothes, making), 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:12 # text = Old clothes can be passed on, sold second-hand or shredded into stuffing; clothes of mixed fibres are hard to recycle, and making new clothes uses lots of water. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 9 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 shredded shred VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 stuffing stuffing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 22 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 recycle recycle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=22:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 csubj _ _ 28 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 27 obj _ _ 30 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass on** | can · passive | | Old clothes | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **sell** | participle | | second hand | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **shred** | participle | | | | | | into stuffing *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into stuffing=Result | | 4 | **mix** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | clothes of mixed fibres | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **recycle** | to-infinitive | clothes of mixed fibres *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | gerund | | new clothes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product | | 8 | **use** | present | making | lots of water | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | 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:12`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/11/) - next →: [Recycling: giving materials a second l…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/)