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title: An aluminium can can be recycled and be back on the shelf within abo… — Recycling: giving materials a second life · tree and pragmatics
description: An aluminium can can be recycled and be back on the shelf within about two months, and melting old cans needs far less energy than making aluminium from rock. Who acts: melting. A sentence of the lesson «Recycling: giving materials a second life» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with
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# Recycling: giving materials a second life, sentence 8

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An aluminium can can be recycled and be back on the shelf within about two months, and melting old cans needs far less energy than making aluminium from rock.

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**Who acts:** melting · **What happens:** recycle, be, melt, need, make · **To what, where:** aluminium can, shelf, old cans, less energy, aluminium, 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: who acts (melting), 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:8
# text = An aluminium can can be recycled and be back on the shelf within about two months, and melting old cans needs far less energy than making aluminium from 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	advcl	_	_
28	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **recycle** | can · passive |  | a aluminium can |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  | the shelf | month |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **melt** | gerund |  | old cans |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient can=Result |
| 4 | **need** | present | melting | less energy |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot energy=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | melting *not said here* | aluminium |  | rock |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset aluminium=Product from rock=Material |

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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:8`.

**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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