--- title: When you drop a can in the recycling, it rides belts in a sorting pl… — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics description: When you drop a can in the recycling, it rides belts in a sorting plant where magnets, air jets and cameras split it from paper, plastic and steel, and it can be back on a shop shelf as a new can in about two months. Who acts: you, can, magnets. 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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 (you, can, magnets), 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:3 # text = When you drop a can in the recycling, it rides belts in a sorting plant where magnets, air jets and cameras split it from paper, plastic and steel, and it can be back on a shop shelf as a new can in about two months. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 can can NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 recycling recycling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 rides ride VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 belts belt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 sorting sorting NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 18 magnets magnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 jets jet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 cameras camera NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 24 split split VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj 32 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 37 back back ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 can can NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 about about ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 49 nummod _ _ 49 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | you | a can | | the recycling | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent can=Theme in recycling=Destination | | 2 | **ride** | present | can | belts | | a sorting plant | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent belt=Location | | 3 | **split** | present | magnets and air jets and cameras | can | | | | from paper and plastic and steel | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from paper=Co-Patient | | 4 | **is** | can | can | | | a shop shelf | | as a new can in two months | 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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/1/) - next →: [Bottles, cans and recycling, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/)