Computers and the internet, sentence 3
The internet began in 1969 by linking a few American university computers, and in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web of pages and links and gave it to the world for free.
Who acts: internet, Tim · What happens: begin, link, invent, give · To what, where: 1969, few American university computers, World Wide Web, 1989, Web, world
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, Tim), 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 | 12 computers | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 computers | amod |
| 10 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 computers | amod |
| 11 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 computers | compound |
| 12 | computers | computer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 linking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 invented | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 invented | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1989 | case |
| 16 | 1989 | 1989 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 invented | obl |
| 17 | Tim | Tim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 invented | nsubj |
| 18 | Berners | Berners | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tim | flat |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Lee | punct |
| 20 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tim | flat |
| 21 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Web | det |
| 23 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Web | compound |
| 24 | Wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Web | amod |
| 25 | Web | web | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 invented | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pages | case |
| 27 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Web | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 links | cc |
| 29 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pages | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gave | cc |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 invented | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 gave | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 world | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 world | det |
| 35 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 free | case |
| 37 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gave | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 American university computers | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent computer=Patient | ||||
| 3 | invent | past | Tim | the World Wide Web of pages and links | 1989 | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Result | |||
| 4 | give | past | Tim not said here | Web | the world | for free | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to world=Recipient for free=Asset |
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:3.
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): R8-pos-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.
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