Computers and the internet, sentence 7
The first electronic computers, in the 1940s, filled whole rooms and were used to break codes and do huge calculations.
What happens: fill, use, break, do · To what, where: first electronic computers, 1940s, codes, huge calculations
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: 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 | 10 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1940s | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1940s | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 1940s | det |
| 8 | 1940s | 1940 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 filled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 filled | punct |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rooms | amod |
| 12 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 filled | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 used | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 used | aux:pass |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 filled | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 break | mark |
| 17 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 used | advcl |
| 18 | codes | code | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 break | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 break | conj |
| 21 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 calculations | amod |
| 22 | calculations | calculation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 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 · passive | the first electronic computers | the 1940s | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | past · passive | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | codes | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer code=Patient | |||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | huge calculations | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calculation=Eventuality |
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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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