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title: At a buffet, taking a little and going back for more wastes less tha… — Wasting food and water · tree and pragmatics
description: At a buffet, taking a little and going back for more wastes less than piling up a full plate. Who acts: taking. A sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wasting food and water, sentence 17

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At a buffet, taking a little and going back for more wastes less than piling up a full plate.

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**Who acts:** taking · **What happens:** take, go back, waste, pile up · **To what, where:** little, buffet, full plate

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» 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: who acts (taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:17
# text = At a buffet, taking a little and going back for more wastes less than piling up a full plate.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.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	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	buffet	buffet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obl	_	_
13	wastes	waste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	piling	pile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	advcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | a little |  | a buffet |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent little=Theme at buffet=Asset |
| 2 | **go back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for more | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **waste** | present | taking |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pile up** | gerund | taking *not said here* | a full plate |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=Theme |

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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:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:17`.

**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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