--- title: We can help by the three Rs: Reduce (use less), Reuse (use things ag… — Caring for the environment · tree and pragmatics description: We can help by the three Rs: Reduce (use less), Reuse (use things again) and Recycle (turn old materials into new things). Who acts: We. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» 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/57-environment/6/) [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/) / [Caring for the environment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/) / 6 # Caring for the environment, sentence 6 We can help by the three Rs: Reduce (use less), Reuse (use things again) and Recycle (turn old materials into new things). **Who acts:** We · **What happens:** help, reduce, use, reuse, turn · **To what, where:** things, old materials, new things This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:057-environment.lesson:6 # text = We can help by the three Rs: Reduce (use less), Reuse (use things again) and Recycle (turn old materials into new things). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 057-environment.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 ×1 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 Rs r NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Reduce reduce VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 12 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Reuse reuse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Recycle recycle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 turn turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 materials material NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 31 . . 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 | **help** | can | We | | | | | by the three Rs | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **reduce** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | | 3 | **use** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **reuse** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Goal | | 5 | **use** | infinitive | | things | | | again | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 6 | **turn** | infinitive | | old materials | | new things | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent material=Theme into thing=Trajectory | 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:057-environment.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): R7-rel-agree ×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: [Caring for the environment, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/5/) - next →: [Caring for the environment, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/)