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title: Plastic bottles can be melted and spun into fibres for fleece jacket… — Recycling: giving materials a second life · tree and pragmatics
description: Plastic bottles can be melted and spun into fibres for fleece jackets; a jacket is often said to take about 25 bottles. 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 14

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Plastic bottles can be melted and spun into fibres for fleece jackets; a jacket is often said to take about 25 bottles.

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**What happens:** melt, spin, say, take · **To what, where:** Plastic bottles, fibres, jacket, 25 bottles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:14
# text = Plastic bottles can be melted and spun into fibres for fleece jackets; a jacket is often said to take about 25 bottles.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fibres	fibre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	fleece	fleece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	jackets	jacket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | can · passive |  | Plastic bottles |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **spin** | participle |  |  |  | fibres for fleece jackets |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fibre=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a jacket |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | 25 bottles |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme |

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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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**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:14`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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