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title: It can be buried in a landfill, burned in an incinerator that often… — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics
description: It can be buried in a landfill, burned in an incinerator that often makes electricity from the heat, or sorted and recycled into new materials. Who acts: incinerator. A sentence of the lesson «Recycling, waste and plastic» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Recycling, waste and plastic, sentence 1

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It can be buried in a landfill, burned in an incinerator that often makes electricity from the heat, or sorted and recycled into new materials.

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**Who acts:** incinerator · **What happens:** bury, burn, make, sort, recycle · **To what, where:** It, landfill, incinerator, electricity, heat, new materials

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Recycling, waste and plastic» 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 (incinerator), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:088-recycling-waste-plastic.lesson:1
# text = It can be buried in a landfill, burned in an incinerator that often makes electricity from the heat, or sorted and recycled into new materials.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 088-recycling-waste-plastic.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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	landfill	landfill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	incinerator	incinerator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sorted	sort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | can · passive |  | It |  | a landfill |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in landfill=Destination |
| 2 | **burn** | participle |  | a landfill *not said here* |  | a incinerator |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in incinerator=Location |
| 3 | **make** | present | a incinerator | electricity |  | the heat |  | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product from heat=Material |
| 4 | **sort** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **recycle** | participle |  |  |  | new materials |  |  | tree rules |

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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:088-recycling-waste-plastic.lesson:1`.

**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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