--- title: Old phones are taken apart, their batteries removed safely and their… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics description: Old phones are taken apart, their batteries removed safely and their metals melted out and reused; phones and batteries must never go in the household bin because they can catch fire. Who acts: batteries, phones, metals. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» of the technology course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/16/) [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/) / [Phones and computer chips](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/) / 16 # Phones and computer chips, sentence 16 Old phones are taken apart, their batteries removed safely and their metals melted out and reused; phones and batteries must never go in the household bin because they can catch fire. **Who acts:** batteries, phones, metals · **What happens:** take apart, remove, melt out, reuse, not go, catch · **To what, where:** Old phones, metals, household bin, fire This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» 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, phones, metals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:009-phones-and-computer-chips.lesson:16 # text = Old phones are taken apart, their batteries removed safely and their metals melted out and reused; phones and batteries must never go in the household bin because they can catch fire. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 009-phones-and-computer-chips.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 apart apart ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 10 safely safely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 melted melt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 reused reuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 33 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take apart** | present · passive | | Old phones | | | | apart *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **remove** | participle | labs's batteries | | | | | safely *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **melt out** | past · passive | | batteries's metals | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 4 | **reuse** | participle | | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **go** | must | phones and batteries | | | the household bin | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bin=Location | | 6 | **catch** | can | metals *= metal* | fire | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | 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:009-phones-and-computer-chips.lesson:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Phones and computer chips, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/15/) - next →: [Phones and computer chips, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/)