--- title: A plastic drinks bottle starts life as a little plastic tube about t… — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics description: A plastic drinks bottle starts life as a little plastic tube about the size of your finger, which is heated and blown up like a balloon inside a bottle-shaped mould in about a second. Who acts: plastic drinks bottle. 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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 (plastic drinks bottle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:004-bottles-cans-and-recycling.lesson:0 # text = A plastic drinks bottle starts life as a little plastic tube about the size of your finger, which is heated and blown up like a balloon inside a bottle-shaped mould in about a second. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 004-bottles-cans-and-recycling.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 compound _ _ 4 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 heated heat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 inside inside ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | a plastic drinks bottle | life | | | | as a little plastic tube about the size of your finger | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | | 2 | **heat** | present · passive | | a little plastic tube about the size of your finger | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **blow up** | participle | | | | a shaped mould | second | like a balloon | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:technology:004-bottles-cans-and-recycling.lesson:0`. **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. **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: [Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy/17/) - next →: [Bottles, cans and recycling, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/)