Computers and screens, sentence 10
A computer program is a list of exact instructions written by programmers in a language the computer can follow; Ada Lovelace, in the 1840s, is often called the first computer programmer.
Who acts: computer program, computer · What happens: be, write, follow, call · To what, where: list, exact instructions, language, Ada, 1840s · 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 (computer program, computer), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 program | det |
| 2 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 program | compound |
| 3 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 list | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 list | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 list | det |
| 6 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | parataxis |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 instructions | case |
| 8 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 instructions | amod |
| 9 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 list | nmod |
| 10 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 instructions | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 programmers | case |
| 12 | programmers | programmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 written | obl:agent |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 language | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 language | det |
| 15 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 written | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 computer | det |
| 17 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 follow | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 follow | aux |
| 19 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 language | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ada | punct |
| 21 | Ada | Ada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 called | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | Lovelace | Lovelace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ada | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 1840s | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 1840s | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 1840s | det |
| 26 | 1840s | 1840 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 30 called | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 1840s | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 called | aux:pass |
| 29 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 called | advmod |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 programmer | det |
| 32 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 programmer | amod |
| 33 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 programmer | compound |
| 34 | programmer | programmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 list | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a computer program | a list | of exact instructions | tree rules | |||
| 2 | write | participle | exact instructions not said here | a language | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in language=Destination | ||||
| 3 | follow | can | the computer | a language not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Ada | the 1840s | often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:10.
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): 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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