--- title: Recycling means making new things from used materials such as paper,… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics description: Recycling means making new things from used materials such as paper, glass, metal and plastic. Who acts: Recycling. A sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/13/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Natural resources and why we must save…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/) / 13 # Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 13 Recycling means making new things from used materials such as paper, glass, metal and plastic. **Who acts:** Recycling · **What happens:** mean, make, use · **To what, where:** new things, used materials This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world 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 (Recycling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:047-natural-resources.lesson:13 # text = Recycling means making new things from used materials such as paper, glass, metal and plastic. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 047-natural-resources.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Recycling recycling NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 materials material NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 11 case _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 15 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Recycling | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | gerund | Recycling *not said here* | new things | | used materials such paper and glass and metal and plastic | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset thing=Product from material=Material | | 3 | **use** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:world:047-natural-resources.lesson:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/11/) - next →: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/)