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title: What is not recycled often goes to landfill, a huge hole where rubbi… — Recycling: giving materials a second life · tree and pragmatics
description: What is not recycled often goes to landfill, a huge hole where rubbish is buried and slowly rots, giving off a gas called methane. Who acts: gas. 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 pra
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# Recycling: giving materials a second life, sentence 6

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What is not recycled often goes to landfill, a huge hole where rubbish is buried and slowly rots, giving off a gas called methane.

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**Who acts:** gas · **What happens:** not recycle, go, bury, rot, give off, call · **To what, where:** landfill, rubbish, gas, methane · **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: who acts (gas), 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:6
# text = What is not recycled often goes to landfill, a huge hole where rubbish is buried and slowly rots, giving off a gas called methane.
# 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	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	csubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	landfill	landfill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	rots	rot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	methane	methane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **recycle** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present |  |  |  | landfill |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to landfill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bury** | present · passive |  | rubbish |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **rot** | present |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **give off** | gerund |  | a gas |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source gas=Theme |
| 6 | **call** | participle | a gas *not said here* | methane |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:6`.

**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/).

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