Computers and the internet, sentence 1
The first electronic computers of the 1940s filled whole rooms and were used to break codes and do huge sums; at Bletchley Park in Britain, Alan Turing helped break secret German codes in the Second World War.
Who acts: first electronic computers, Alan · What happens: fill, use, break, do, help · To what, where: whole rooms, codes, huge sums, Bletchley Park, secret German codes, Second World War
This is a sentence of the lesson «Computers and the internet» of the history 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 (first electronic computers, Alan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 computers | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 computers | amod |
| 3 | electronic | electronic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 computers | amod |
| 4 | computers | computer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 filled | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 1940s | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 1940s | det |
| 7 | 1940s | 1940 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 computers | nmod |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rooms | amod |
| 10 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 filled | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 used | cc |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 used | aux:pass |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 filled | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 break | mark |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | xcomp |
| 16 | codes | code | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 break | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 break | conj |
| 19 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sums | amod |
| 20 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 do | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 filled | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Park | case |
| 23 | Bletchley | Bletchley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Park | compound |
| 24 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 helped | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Britain | case |
| 26 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Park | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 helped | punct |
| 28 | Alan | Alan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 helped | nsubj |
| 29 | Turing | Turing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Alan | flat |
| 30 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filled | parataxis |
| 31 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 helped | xcomp |
| 32 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 codes | amod |
| 33 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 codes | amod |
| 34 | codes | code | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 break | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 War | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 War | det |
| 37 | Second | Second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 39 War | amod |
| 38 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 War | compound |
| 39 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 break | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the first electronic computers of the 1940s | whole rooms | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient | ||||
| 2 | use | past · passive | the first electronic computers of the 1940s not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | the first electronic computers of the 1940s not said here | codes | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer code=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | the first electronic computers of the 1940s not said here | huge sums | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | help | past | Alan | Bletchley Park in Britain | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | break | infinitive | Alan not said here | secret German codes | the Second World War | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer code=Patient |
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, 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:history:036-computers-and-the-internet.lesson:1.
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. 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.
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