Computers and the internet, sentence 12

The internet began in 1969 by linking a few computers in American universities and grew into a worldwide network.

Who acts: internet · What happens: begin, link, grow · To what, where: 1969, few computers, American universities, worldwide network

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 (internet), 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	2 internet	det
2	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1969	case
5	1969	1969	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 began	obl
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 linking	mark
7	linking	link	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 computers	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 computers	amod
10	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 linking	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 universities	case
12	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 universities	amod
13	universities	university	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 computers	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grew	cc
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 network	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 network	det
18	worldwide	worldwide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 network	amod
19	network	network	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the internet		1969		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	link	gerund	the internet not said here	a few computers	American universities		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent computer=Patient
3	grow	past	the internet not said here			into a worldwide network result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into network=Result

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:12.

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.

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