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title: Reducing usually helps most, because what is never made never needs… — The environment · tree and pragmatics
description: Reducing usually helps most, because what is never made never needs to be thrown away. A sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The environment, sentence 10

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Reducing usually helps most, because what is never made never needs to be thrown away.

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**What happens:** reduce, help, not make, not need, throw away

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics 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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:10
# text = Reducing usually helps most, because what is never made never needs to be thrown away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 047-the-environment.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 ×2
1	Reducing	reduce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:mark
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **make** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **not** **need** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **throw away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2. **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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