--- title: The three Rs are reduce (use less), reuse (use things again) and rec… — The environment · tree and pragmatics description: The three Rs are reduce (use less), reuse (use things again) and recycle (turn old materials into new things). Who acts: three Rs. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/9/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [The environment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/) / 9 # The environment, sentence 9 The three Rs are reduce (use less), reuse (use things again) and recycle (turn old materials into new things). **Who acts:** three Rs · **What happens:** reduce, use, reuse, recycle, turn · **To what, where:** things, old materials, new things 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: who acts (three Rs), 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:9 # text = The three Rs are reduce (use less), reuse (use things again) and recycle (turn old materials into new things). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 Rs r NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 reduce reduce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 8 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 reuse reuse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 recycle recycle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 parataxis _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 materials material NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reduce** | present | the three Rs | | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | | 2 | **use** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **reuse** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Goal | | 4 | **use** | infinitive | | things | | | again | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 5 | **recycle** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **turn** | infinitive | | old materials | | new things | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent material=Theme into thing=Trajectory | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/8/) - next →: [The environment, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/)