Computers and the internet, sentence 8

Alan Turing helped break German codes at Bletchley Park in the Second World War and described how computers could work and even think, ideas at the base of computer science.

Who acts: Alan, computers · What happens: help, break, describe, work, think · To what, where: German codes, Bletchley Park

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 (Alan, computers), 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	Alan	Alan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 helped	nsubj
2	Turing	Turing	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Alan	flat
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helped	xcomp
5	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 codes	amod
6	codes	code	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 Park	case
8	Bletchley	Bletchley	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Park	compound
9	Park	Park	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 break	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 War	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 War	det
12	Second	Second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 War	amod
13	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 War	compound
14	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 break	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 described	cc
16	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 helped	conj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 work	advmod
18	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 work	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 work	aux
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 described	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 think	cc
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 think	advmod
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 work	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ideas	punct
25	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 helped	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 base	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 base	det
28	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ideas	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 science	case
30	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 science	compound
31	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 base	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 helped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	past	Alan				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	break	infinitive	Alan not said here	German codes	Bletchley Park	in the Second World War	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer code=Patient
3	describe	past	Alan not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	work	could	computers				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	infinitive	computers not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:8.

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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