---
title: A juice carton is made of layers of paper, plastic and foil thinner… — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics
description: A juice carton is made of layers of paper, plastic and foil thinner than a hair, which keep light and air out, so it cannot be recycled like plain paper with the newspapers. Who acts: layers. A sentence of the lesson «Bottles, cans and recycling» of the technology course of Mova's primary school wit
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Bottles, cans and recycling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/) / 14

# Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A juice carton is made of layers of paper, plastic and foil thinner than a hair, which keep light and air out, so it cannot be recycled like plain paper with the newspapers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** layers · **What happens:** make, keep, not recycle · **To what, where:** juice carton, light, carton

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bottles, cans and recycling» 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 (layers), 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:14
# text = A juice carton is made of layers of paper, plastic and foil thinner than a hair, which keep light and air out, so it cannot be recycled like plain paper with the newspapers.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	carton	carton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	foil	foil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	thinner	thinner	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
34	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | a juice carton |  |  |  | of layers of paper and plastic | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **keep** | present | layers of paper and plastic | light and air |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **recycle** | can · passive |  | carton |  |  |  | like plain paper with the newspapers | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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: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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Bottles, cans and recycling, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/13/)
- next →: [Bottles, cans and recycling, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/15/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/)

