--- title: Best of all is to reduce what we use, next to reuse things, and only… — Recycling: giving materials a second life · tree and pragmatics description: Best of all is to reduce what we use, next to reuse things, and only then to recycle: that is why the saying goes "reduce, reuse, recycle" in that order. Who acts: we, that. 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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 (we, that), 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:5 # text = Best of all is to reduce what we use, next to reuse things, and only then to recycle: that is why the saying goes "reduce, reuse, recycle" in that order. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 1 obl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 reduce reduce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 8 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 next next ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 reuse reuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 recycle recycle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl:relcl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 reduce reduce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 reuse reuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 recycle recycle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=31:conj 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | next, reduce *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | we | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **reuse** | to-infinitive | | things | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Asset | | 4 | **recycle** | to-infinitive | | | | | then | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | that | | | | | go *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **reduce** *in a quote* | infinitive | that *not said here* | | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | | 7 | **reuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | that *not said here* | | | that order | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **recycle** *in a quote* | infinitive | that *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/4/) - next →: [Recycling: giving materials a second l…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/)