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title: Recycling an aluminium can uses only about a twentieth of the energy… — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics
description: Recycling an aluminium can uses only about a twentieth of the energy needed to make a new one from rock. Who acts: Recycling. 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 5

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Recycling an aluminium can uses only about a twentieth of the energy needed to make a new one from rock.

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**Who acts:** Recycling · **What happens:** recycle, use, need, make · **To what, where:** aluminium can, twentieth, energy, new one, rock

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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 (Recycling), 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:5
# text = Recycling an aluminium can uses only about a twentieth of the energy needed to make a new one from rock.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Recycling	recycle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	twentieth	twentieth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **recycle** | gerund |  | a aluminium can |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | Recycling | a twentieth of the energy |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twentieth=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | participle |  | the energy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a new one |  | rock |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset one=Product from rock=Material |

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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:5`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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