Computers and screens, sentence 11

An optical mouse has a light and a tiny camera underneath that take pictures of the desk many times a second to work out how it moved, so on clear glass with no pattern to see it gets lost; the first mouse, in the 1960s, was made of wood.

Who acts: optical mouse, underneath, mouse · What happens: have, take, work out, move, see, lose · To what, where: light, pictures, mouse, 1960s, clear glass · 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 (optical mouse, underneath, mouse), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
2	optical	optical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mouse	amod
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 underneath	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 camera	det
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 camera	amod
10	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj
11	underneath	underneath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 take	nsubj
13	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 underneath	acl:relcl
14	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 take	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 desk	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 desk	det
17	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pictures	nmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 times	amod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 take	obl:unmarked
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 second	det
21	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 take	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 work	mark
23	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 take	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 work	compound:prt
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 moved	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 moved	nsubj
27	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 work	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 made	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	51 made	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 glass	case
31	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 glass	amod
32	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 made	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 pattern	case
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 pattern	det
35	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 glass	nmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 see	mark
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 pattern	acl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lost	nsubj:pass
39	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 lost	aux:pass
40	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 see	ccomp
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 mouse	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 mouse	det
43	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	44 mouse	amod
44	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lost	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 1960s	punct
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 1960s	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 1960s	det
48	1960s	1960s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	40 lost	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 glass	punct
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 made	aux:pass
51	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 has	parataxis
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 wood	case
53	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 made	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a optical mouse	a light and a tiny camera and underneath				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
2	take	present	underneath	pictures of the desk		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
3	work out	to-infinitive	underneath not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	move	past	mouse					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	lose	present · passive		mouse	the 1960s		the first mouse obl	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	make	past · passive			clear glass with no pattern		of wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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:11.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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