--- title: A ring-pull is a little lever fixed to the lid; stay-on tabs were in… — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics description: A ring-pull is a little lever fixed to the lid; stay-on tabs were invented in the 1970s because old pull-off tabs littered beaches; small caps are a choking danger for babies. Who acts: ring pull, old pull tabs, small caps. 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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 (ring pull, old pull tabs, small caps), 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:13 # text = A ring-pull is a little lever fixed to the lid; stay-on tabs were invented in the 1970s because old pull-off tabs littered beaches; small caps are a choking danger for babies. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lever lever NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 parataxis _ _ 9 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 on on ADP IN _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 tabs tabs NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 1970s 1970s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 24 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 25 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound 28 tabs tabs NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 littered litter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 30 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 caps cap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 choking choke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 amod _ _ 37 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 parataxis _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **is a** | present | a ring pull | a little lever | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fix** | participle | | a little lever *not said here* | | | | to the lid | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to lid=Co-Patient | | 3 | **stay on** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **invent** | past · passive | | stay tabs | | the 1970s | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 5 | **litter** | past | old pull tabs | beaches | | | | | vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Patient | | 6 | **choke** | gerund | | | | | | | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **is a** | present | small caps | a choking danger | | | | for babies | tree rules | 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:13`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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: [Bottles, cans and recycling, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/12/) - next →: [Bottles, cans and recycling, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/)