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title: Dirty or greasy things, like a pizza box soaked with oil, can spoil… — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics
description: Dirty or greasy things, like a pizza box soaked with oil, can spoil a whole load of paper. Who acts: Dirty things. 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 9

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Dirty or greasy things, like a pizza box soaked with oil, can spoil a whole load of paper.

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**Who acts:** Dirty things · **What happens:** soak, spoil · **To what, where:** pizza box, whole load

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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 (Dirty things), 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:9
# text = Dirty or greasy things, like a pizza box soaked with oil, can spoil a whole load of paper.
# 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	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	greasy	greasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
10	soaked	soak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **soak** | participle |  | a pizza box *not said here* |  |  |  | with oil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with oil=Theme |
| 2 | **spoil** | can | Dirty things like a pizza box | a whole load of paper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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/).

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