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title: An aluminium drinks can is melted down and can be a new can back in… — Recycling: giving materials a second life · tree and pragmatics
description: An aluminium drinks can is melted down and can be a new can back in the shop within about two months, using far less energy than digging up new rock. 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
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# Recycling: giving materials a second life, sentence 2

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An aluminium drinks can is melted down and can be a new can back in the shop within about two months, using far less energy than digging up new rock.

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**What happens:** melt down, be, use, dig up · **To what, where:** aluminium drinks can, new can, less energy, new rock

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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:2
# text = An aluminium drinks can is melted down and can be a new can back in the shop within about two months, using far less energy than digging up new rock.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Plur
4	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt down** | present · passive |  | a aluminium drinks can |  |  | month |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | can |  | a new can |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | gerund |  | less energy |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |
| 4 | **dig up** | gerund |  | new rock |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=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:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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