Computers and screens, sentence 16
An inkjet printer sprays tiny drops of ink, while a laser printer uses a laser to put powder on the paper and heat to fix it, which is why its pages come out warm.
Who acts: inkjet printer, laser printer, pages, heat · What happens: spray, use, put, fix, be, come out · To what, where: tiny drops, laser, powder, paper
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 (inkjet printer, laser printer, pages, heat), 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 printer | det |
| 2 | inkjet | inkjet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 printer | compound |
| 3 | printer | printer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprays | nsubj |
| 4 | sprays | spray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drops | amod |
| 6 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprays | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ink | case |
| 8 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drops | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 uses | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 uses | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 printer | det |
| 12 | laser | laser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 printer | compound |
| 13 | printer | printer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 uses | nsubj |
| 14 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprays | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 laser | det |
| 16 | laser | laser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 uses | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 put | mark |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 uses | advcl |
| 19 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 paper | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 paper | det |
| 22 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 heat | cc |
| 24 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paper | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fix | mark |
| 26 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 put | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fix | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 why | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 why | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 why | cop |
| 31 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 fix | parataxis |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 pages | nmod:poss |
| 33 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 come | nsubj |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 why | ccomp |
| 35 | out | out | ADV | _ | 34 come | advmod |
| 36 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 come | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spray | present | a inkjet printer | tiny drops of ink | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | present | a laser printer | a laser | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laser=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | a laser printer not said here | powder | the paper and heat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent powder=Theme on paper=Destination | |||
| 4 | fix | to-infinitive | a laser printer not said here | powder | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come out | present | heat's pages | out, warm property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | page | heat | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=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:technology:036-computers-and-screens.lesson:16.
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, R7-rel-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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