--- title: Batteries go in special collection boxes, never ordinary bins: they… — Recycling: giving materials a second life · tree and pragmatics description: Batteries go in special collection boxes, never ordinary bins: they contain metals that harm nature if they leak and can be recovered, and batteries in bins can start fires in rubbish trucks. Who acts: Batteries, metals. 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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 (Batteries, metals), 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:13 # text = Batteries go in special collection boxes, never ordinary bins: they contain metals that harm nature if they leak and can be recovered, and batteries in bins can start fires in rubbish trucks. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 harm harm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 leak leak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 recovered recover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 32 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 trucks truck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Batteries | | | special collection boxes | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in box=Location | | 2 | **contain** | present | Batteries *= battery* | metals | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot metal=Theme | | 3 | **harm** | present | metals | nature | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nature=Experiencer | | 4 | **leak** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Batteries *= battery* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **recover** | can · passive | Batteries *= battery* *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **start** | can | batteries in bins | fires | | rubbish trucks | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality | 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:13`. **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: [Recycling: giving materials a second l…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/12/) - next →: [Recycling: giving materials a second l…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/)