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title: Reduce, reuse, recycle: use less, use things again, and turn waste i… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics
description: Reduce, reuse, recycle: use less, use things again, and turn waste into new materials. Who acts: you. 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.
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# Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 16

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Reduce, reuse, recycle: use less, use things again, and turn waste into new materials.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** reduce, reuse, recycle, use, turn · **To what, where:** things, waste, new materials

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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 (you), 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:16
# text = Reduce, reuse, recycle: use less, use things again, and turn waste into new materials.
# 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): no change
1	Reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	reuse	reuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	recycle	recycle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **reduce** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **reuse** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **recycle** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** | infinitive |  | things |  |  | again |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 6 | **turn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | waste |  | new materials |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent waste=Theme into material=Trajectory |

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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:world:047-natural-resources.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): 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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