--- title: There are many kinds of plastic, and many of them are hard to recycl… — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics description: There are many kinds of plastic, and many of them are hard to recycle, so only a small share of all plastic ever made has been recycled. Who acts: many kinds, many. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many kinds, many), 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:10 # text = There are many kinds of plastic, and many of them are hard to recycle, so only a small share of all plastic ever made has been recycled. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 recycle recycle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 26 advmod _ _ 26 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 recycled recycle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | many kinds of plastic | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | many of kinds | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **recycle** | to-infinitive | many of kinds *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | participle | | all plastic *not said here* | | | ever | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **recycle** | present · perfect · passive | | a small share of all plastic | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **share** | | | all plastic | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:088-recycling-waste-plastic.lesson:10`. **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/). - ← previous: [Recycling, waste and plastic, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/9/) - next →: [Recycling, waste and plastic, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/)