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title: Glass can be recycled again and again without getting worse. — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics
description: Glass can be recycled again and again without getting worse. A sentence of the lesson «Recycling, waste and plastic» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Recycling, waste and plastic, sentence 17

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Glass can be recycled again and again without getting worse.

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**What happens:** recycle, get · **To what, where:** Glass

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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: 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:17
# text = Glass can be recycled again and again without getting worse.
# 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	Glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | can · passive |  | Glass |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:17`.

**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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