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title: The best order for less waste is reduce, then reuse, then recycle; g… — Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The best order for less waste is reduce, then reuse, then recycle; glass and aluminium can be recycled again and again, paper only a few times, and batteries go in special collection boxes. Who acts: best order, batteries. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» of the
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# Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★, sentence 19

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The best order for less waste is reduce, then reuse, then recycle; glass and aluminium can be recycled again and again, paper only a few times, and batteries go in special collection boxes.

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**Who acts:** best order, batteries · **What happens:** be, reuse, recycle, go · **To what, where:** glass, special collection boxes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» 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 (best order, batteries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:19
# text = The best order for less waste is reduce, then reuse, then recycle; glass and aluminium can be recycled again and again, paper only a few times, and batteries go in special collection boxes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	reuse	reuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	recycle	recycle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | the best order for less waste |  |  |  |  | reduce *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reuse** | infinitive | the best order for less waste *not said here* |  |  |  | then; time |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **recycle** | infinitive | the best order for less waste *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **recycle** | can · passive |  | glass and aluminium |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | present | batteries |  |  | special collection boxes |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in box=Location |

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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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**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. **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.

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