--- title: Plastic does not rot away; sunlight and waves break it into smaller… — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics description: Plastic does not rot away; sunlight and waves break it into smaller and smaller pieces called microplastics, which are now found from deep oceans to Arctic snow. Who acts: Plastic, sunlight, smaller pieces. 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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 (Plastic, sunlight, smaller pieces), 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:11 # text = Plastic does not rot away; sunlight and waves break it into smaller and smaller pieces called microplastics, which are now found from deep oceans to Arctic snow. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 rot rot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod 16 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 microplastics microplastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 now now ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **rot away** | present · do-support | Plastic | | | | | away *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **break** | present | sunlight and waves | plastic | | | | into smaller pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into piece=Result | | 3 | **call** | participle | smaller pieces *not said here* | microplastics | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | present · passive | | smaller pieces | | deep oceans to Arctic snow | now | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from ocean=Source | 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:11`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/10/) - next →: [Recycling, waste and plastic, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/88-recycling-waste-plastic/)