--- title: Small habits add up: if a whole city reduces, reuses and recycles, t… — The environment · tree and pragmatics description: Small habits add up: if a whole city reduces, reuses and recycles, the sea gets less plastic and the air gets cleaner. Who acts: Small habits, whole city, sea, air. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Small habits, whole city, sea, air), 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:2 # text = Small habits add up: if a whole city reduces, reuses and recycles, the sea gets less plastic and the air gets cleaner. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 reduces reduce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 reuses reuse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 recycles recycle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 20 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 cleaner cleaner ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Small habits | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **reduce** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a whole city | | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | | 3 | **reuse** | present | a whole city *not said here* | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **recycle** | present | a whole city *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | present | the sea | less plastic | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plastic=Stimulus | | 6 | **get** | present | the air | | | | | cleaner *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The environment, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/1/) - next →: [The environment, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/)