--- title: Plastic drink-pack rings are cut before they are thrown away. — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: Plastic drink-pack rings are cut before they are thrown away. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Kindness to animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/) / 5 # Kindness to animals, sentence 5 Plastic drink-pack rings are cut before they are thrown away. **What happens:** cut, throw away · **To what, where:** Plastic pack rings, rings This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» of the everyday 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:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.lesson:5 # text = Plastic drink-pack rings are cut before they are thrown away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 207-kindness-to-animals.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 Plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | present · passive | | Plastic pack rings | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **throw away** | present · passive | | rings *= ring* | | | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Kindness to animals, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/3/) - next →: [Kindness to animals, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/)