--- title: Old batteries go in a special recycling bin so their metals can be u… — Batteries · tree and pragmatics description: Old batteries go in a special recycling bin so their metals can be used again and their chemicals stay out of landfill; batteries thrown in normal bins have started fires in bin lorries. Who acts: Old batteries, chemicals, batteries. A sentence of the lesson «Batteries» of the technology course of M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/14/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Batteries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/) / 14 # Batteries, sentence 14 Old batteries go in a special recycling bin so their metals can be used again and their chemicals stay out of landfill; batteries thrown in normal bins have started fires in bin lorries. **Who acts:** Old batteries, chemicals, batteries · **What happens:** go, use, stay out, throw, start · **To what, where:** special recycling bin, metals, landfill, batteries, normal bins, fires This is a sentence of the lesson «Batteries» of the technology 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 (Old batteries, chemicals, batteries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:034-batteries.lesson:14 # text = Old batteries go in a special recycling bin so their metals can be used again and their chemicals stay out of landfill; batteries thrown in normal bins have started fires in bin lorries. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 034-batteries.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 recycling recycling NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 so so SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 landfill landfill NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 25 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 started start VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 31 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 lorries lorry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Old batteries | | | a special recycling bin | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bin=Location | | 2 | **use** | can · passive | | panels's metals | | | again | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **stay out** | present | panels's chemicals | landfill | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme landfill=Location | | 4 | **throw** | participle | | batteries *not said here* | | normal bins | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in bin=Destination | | 5 | **start** | present · perfect | batteries | fires | | bin lorries | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality | 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:technology:034-batteries.lesson:14`. **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): 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: [Batteries, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/13/) - next →: [Batteries, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/)