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title: Recycling an aluminium can saves most of the energy needed to make a… — Caring for the environment · tree and pragmatics
description: Recycling an aluminium can saves most of the energy needed to make a new one. Who acts: Recycling. 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.
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# Caring for the environment, sentence 7

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Recycling an aluminium can saves most of the energy needed to make a new one.

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**Who acts:** Recycling · **What happens:** recycle, save, need, make · **To what, where:** aluminium can, most, energy, new one

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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 (Recycling), 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:7
# text = Recycling an aluminium can saves most of the energy needed to make a new one.
# 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
1	Recycling	recycle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **recycle** | gerund |  | a aluminium can |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | present | Recycling | most of the energy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | participle |  | the energy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a new one |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |

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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:057-environment.lesson:7`.

**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. **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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