Computers and the internet, sentence 2
The microchip packed many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon, which is why the phone in your pocket is millions of times more powerful than those room-sized machines.
Who acts: microchip, silicon, phone · What happens: pack, be, size · To what, where: many tiny parts, small piece, millions
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 (microchip, silicon, phone), 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 microchip | det |
| 2 | microchip | microchip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 packed | nsubj |
| 3 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 parts | amod |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 parts | amod |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 packed | obj |
| 7 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 10 piece | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 piece | amod |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 packed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 silicon | case |
| 12 | silicon | silicon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 why | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 why | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 why | cop |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 silicon | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 phone | det |
| 18 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 millions | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pocket | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 21 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 phone | nmod | ||
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 millions | cop |
| 23 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 powerful | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 times | case |
| 25 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 millions | nmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 powerful | advmod |
| 27 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 why | advcl:relcl |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 machines | case |
| 29 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 machines | det |
| 30 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sized | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 room | punct |
| 32 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 machines | amod |
| 33 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 powerful | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | past | the microchip | many tiny parts | a small piece of silicon | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme onto piece=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | present | silicon | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the phone in your pocket | millions | time | tree rules | |||
| 4 | size | participle | tree rules |
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:2.
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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