Computers and screens, sentence 12
A screen is made of millions of tiny dots called pixels, each with red, green and blue parts that light up in different amounts, and all three glowing brightly together look white; with a magnifying glass you can see them.
Who acts: tiny dots, red parts, three, you · What happens: make, call, light up, glow, look, magnify · To what, where: screen, pixels, different amounts, amounts · 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 (tiny dots, red parts, three, you), 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 | 2 screen | det |
| 2 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 millions | case |
| 6 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dots | case |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dots | amod |
| 9 | dots | dot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 millions | nmod |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dots | acl |
| 11 | pixels | pixel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 each | punct |
| 13 | each | each | PRON | PronType=Tot | 9 dots | appos |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 parts | case |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 parts | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 green | punct |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 red | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blue | cc |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 red | conj |
| 20 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 each | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 light | nsubj |
| 22 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 parts | acl:relcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 light | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 amounts | case |
| 25 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 amounts | amod |
| 26 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 light | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 look | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 look | cc |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 three | det |
| 30 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 look | nsubj |
| 31 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 three | acl |
| 32 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 34 look | advmod |
| 33 | together | together | ADV | _ | 31 glowing | advmod |
| 34 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 35 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 look | xcomp |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 glass | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 glass | det |
| 39 | magnifying | magnify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 glass | amod |
| 40 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 see | obl |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 see | nsubj |
| 42 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 see | aux |
| 43 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | parataxis |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 see | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | a screen | of millions of tiny dots | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | tiny dots not said here | pixels | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | light up | present | red parts | different amounts | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | glow | gerund | together property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | present | all three | brightly, white property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | magnify | gerund | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | see | can | you | amounts = amount | with a magnifying glass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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:12.
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 ×1, 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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