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title: Plastic dropped as litter can last hundreds of years, so plastic bot… — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics
description: Plastic dropped as litter can last hundreds of years, so plastic bottles should go in the recycling. Who acts: Plastic, litter, plastic bottles. 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 eve
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# Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 6

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Plastic dropped as litter can last hundreds of years, so plastic bottles should go in the recycling.

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**Who acts:** Plastic, litter, plastic bottles · **What happens:** drop, last, go · **To what, where:** hundreds, recycling

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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 (Plastic, litter, plastic bottles), 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:6
# text = Plastic dropped as litter can last hundreds of years, so plastic bottles should go in the recycling.
# 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): no change
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	recycling	recycling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **drop** | past | Plastic |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **last** | can | litter | hundreds of years |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hundred=Value |
| 3 | **go** | should | plastic bottles |  |  | the recycling |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in recycling=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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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