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title: Batteries thrown in with the recycling can start fires in lorries an… — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics
description: Batteries thrown in with the recycling can start fires in lorries and plants, so they go in special battery bins instead. Who acts: Batteries. A sentence of the lesson «Bottles, cans and recycling» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 4

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Batteries thrown in with the recycling can start fires in lorries and plants, so they go in special battery bins instead.

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**Who acts:** Batteries · **What happens:** throw, start, go · **To what, where:** Batteries, fires, lorries, special battery bins

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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 (Batteries), 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:4
# text = Batteries thrown in with the recycling can start fires in lorries and plants, so they go in special battery bins instead.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	recycling	recycling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	lorries	lorry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | participle |  | Batteries *not said here* |  |  |  | with the recycling | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **start** | can | Batteries | fires |  | lorries and plants |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | present | Batteries *= battery* |  |  | special battery bins |  | instead *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bin=Location |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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): 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/).

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