Computers and screens, sentence 1
Its processor follows a list of exact instructions, called a program, doing billions of tiny steps every second, like a cook who reads a recipe one line at a time at lightning speed.
Who acts: processor, list, cook · What happens: follow, call, do, read, list · To what, where: list, program, billions, recipe, exact instructions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Computers and screens» of the technology 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 (processor, list, cook), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 processor | nmod:poss |
| 2 | processor | processor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | nsubj |
| 3 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 list | det |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 instructions | case |
| 7 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 instructions | amod |
| 8 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 list | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 list | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 program | det |
| 12 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 doing | punct |
| 14 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 follows | parataxis |
| 15 | billions | billion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 doing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 steps | case |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 steps | amod |
| 18 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 billions | nmod |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 second | det |
| 20 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 doing | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cook | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 cook | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cook | det |
| 24 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 doing | obl |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 reads | nsubj |
| 26 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cook | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 recipe | det |
| 28 | recipe | recipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reads | obj |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 line | nummod |
| 30 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reads | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reads | obl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 speed | case |
| 35 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 speed | compound |
| 36 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 time | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | computer's processor | a list of exact instructions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a list of exact instructions not said here | a program | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent program=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | billions of tiny steps | second | like a cook | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billion=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | read | present | a cook | a recipe | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent recipe=Recipient line=Topic | |||
| 5 | list | exact instructions | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:technology:036-computers-and-screens.lesson:1.
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 ×2. 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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