Computers and the internet, sentence 14
The first mobile phones in the 1980s were as big as bricks, and from 2007 smartphones with touch screens began to spread.
Who acts: first mobile phones, 2007 smartphones · What happens: be, begin, spread
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 mobile phones, 2007 smartphones), 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 phones | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 phones | amod |
| 3 | mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 phones | amod |
| 4 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 big | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1980s | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 1980s | det |
| 7 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 phones | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 big | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 big | advmod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 bricks | case |
| 12 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 big | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 smartphones | case |
| 16 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 smartphones | nummod |
| 17 | smartphones | smartphone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 began | nsubj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 screens | case |
| 19 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 screens | compound |
| 20 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 smartphones | nmod |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 big | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 spread | mark |
| 23 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 big | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the first mobile phones in the 1980s | as bricks; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | 2007 smartphones with touch screens | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | spread | to-infinitive | 2007 smartphones with touch screens not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:14.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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