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title: Old batteries and electronics must not go in the ordinary bin, becau… — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics
description: Old batteries and electronics must not go in the ordinary bin, because they can catch fire and hold harmful metals. Who acts: Old batteries, batteries. 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 
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# Recycling, waste and plastic, sentence 24

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Old batteries and electronics must not go in the ordinary bin, because they can catch fire and hold harmful metals.

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**Who acts:** Old batteries, batteries · **What happens:** not go, catch, hold · **To what, where:** ordinary bin, fire, harmful metals

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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 (Old batteries, batteries), 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:24
# text = Old batteries and electronics must not go in the ordinary bin, because they can catch fire and hold harmful metals.
# 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	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	electronics	electronics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **go** | must | Old batteries and electronics |  |  | the ordinary bin |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bin=Location |
| 2 | **catch** | can | batteries *= battery* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | batteries *= battery* *not said here* | harmful metals |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Theme |

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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:24`.

**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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