--- title: In landfill, rubbish rots without air and bacteria make methane, a g… — Recycling: giving materials a second life · tree and pragmatics description: In landfill, rubbish rots without air and bacteria make methane, a gas that warms the planet; some landfills collect it to make electricity. Who acts: rubbish, bacteria, gas, landfills. 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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 (rubbish, bacteria, gas, landfills), 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:17 # text = In landfill, rubbish rots without air and bacteria make methane, a gas that warms the planet; some landfills collect it to make electricity. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 landfill landfill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 rots rot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 6 without without ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 methane methane NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 planet planet NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 landfills landfill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 collect collect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 26 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rot** | present | rubbish | | | landfill | | without air | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | bacteria | methane | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset methane=Product | | 3 | **warm** | present | a gas | the planet | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent planet=Patient | | 4 | **collect** | present | some landfills | planet | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | some landfills *not said here* | electricity | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product | 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:17`. **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): no change. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/16/) - next →: [The air we breathe, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/)