--- title: Plastics spread from the 1950s; they are cheap, light and clean, but… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics description: Plastics spread from the 1950s; they are cheap, light and clean, but plastic waste now fills oceans and beaches. Who acts: Plastics, Workers, plastic waste. A sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/24/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Light, machines and medicine: how the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/) / 24 # Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 24 Plastics spread from the 1950s; they are cheap, light and clean, but plastic waste now fills oceans and beaches. **Who acts:** Plastics, Workers, plastic waste · **What happens:** spread, be, fill · **To what, where:** 1950s, oceans This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history 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 (Plastics, Workers, plastic waste), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:24 # text = Plastics spread from the 1950s; they are cheap, light and clean, but plastic waste now fills oceans and beaches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.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 Plastics plastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 1950s 1950 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 now now ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | past | Plastics | | | the 1950s | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Workers *= worker* | | | | | cheap *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Workers *= worker* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Workers *= worker* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fill** | present | plastic waste | oceans and beaches | | | now | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient | 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:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:24`. **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: [Light, machines and medicine: how the…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/23/) - next →: [From band to nation: families, tribes,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/)