--- title: A drinks can starts as a flat disc of aluminium punched into a cup a… — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics description: A drinks can starts as a flat disc of aluminium punched into a cup and stretched tall, and a glass bottle starts as a glowing blob of melted sand and old glass blown into a mould. Who acts: drinks can, glass 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 (drinks can, glass 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:1 # text = A drinks can starts as a flat disc of aluminium punched into a cup and stretched tall, and a glass bottle starts as a glowing blob of melted sand and old glass blown into a mould. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 3 can can NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 disc disc NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 aluminium aluminium NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 punched punch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 glowing glow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 amod _ _ 27 blob blob NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 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 drinks can | | | | | as a flat disc of aluminium | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **punch** | participle | | a flat disc of aluminium *not said here* | | a cup | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **stretch** | past | a drinks can *not said here* | | | | | tall *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **start** | present | a glass bottle | | | | | as a glowing blob of melted sand and old glass | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **glow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **melt** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **blow** | participle | | a glowing blob of melted sand and old glass *not said here* | | a mould | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into mould=Product | 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:1`. **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: [Bottles, cans and recycling, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/0/) - next →: [Bottles, cans and recycling, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/)