--- title: So we save resources: we turn off lights and taps, sort rubbish so t… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics description: So we save resources: we turn off lights and taps, sort rubbish so that paper, glass, metal and plastic can be recycled, use things again, and get energy from the Sun and wind; one tonne of recycled paper saves many trees from being cut. Who acts: we, one tonne. A sentence of the lesson «Natural res --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/4/) [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/) / 4 # Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 4 So we save resources: we turn off lights and taps, sort rubbish so that paper, glass, metal and plastic can be recycled, use things again, and get energy from the Sun and wind; one tonne of recycled paper saves many trees from being cut. **Who acts:** we, one tonne · **What happens:** save, turn off, sort, recycle, use, get · **To what, where:** resources, lights, rubbish, paper, things, energy 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 (we, one tonne), 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:4 # text = So we save resources: we turn off lights and taps, sort rubbish so that paper, glass, metal and plastic can be recycled, use things again, and get energy from the Sun and wind; one tonne of recycled paper saves many trees from being cut. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 save save VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 resources resource NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 9 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 taps tap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 sort sort VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 so so SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 recycled recycle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 again again ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 41 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 tonne tonne NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 recycled recycle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 amod _ _ 45 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 47 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 49 from from SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 50 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 51 aux:pass _ _ 51 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 advcl _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | present | we | resources | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resource=Theme | | 2 | **turn off** | present | we | lights and taps | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient | | 3 | **sort** | present | we *not said here* | rubbish | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme | | 4 | **recycle** | can · passive | | paper and glass and metal and plastic | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | present | we *not said here* | things | | | again | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 6 | **get** | infinitive | we *not said here* | energy | | the Sun and wind | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent energy=Theme from sun=Source | | 7 | **recycle** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **save** | present | one tonne of recycled paper | many trees | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | | 9 | **cut** | gerund · passive | one tonne of recycled paper *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | 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: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, 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: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/3/) - next →: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/)