Computers and screens, sentence 17
The cloud is really other people's computers in big data centres, reached through the internet, and data centres use huge amounts of electricity and cooling.
Who acts: cloud, data centres · What happens: be, reach, use, amount · To what, where: computers, big data centres, internet, huge amounts, electricity
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 (cloud, data centres), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cloud | det |
| 2 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 computers | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 computers | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 computers | advmod |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 computers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 people | case |
| 8 | computers | computer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 centres | case |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 centres | amod |
| 11 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 centres | compound |
| 12 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 computers | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 centres | acl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 internet | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 internet | det |
| 17 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 use | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 use | cc |
| 20 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 centres | compound |
| 21 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 use | nsubj |
| 22 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reached | conj |
| 23 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 amounts | amod |
| 24 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 use | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 electricity | case |
| 26 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 amounts | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cooling | cc |
| 28 | cooling | cooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 electricity | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 computers | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the cloud | other people's computers | big data centres | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reach | participle | big data centres not said here | the internet | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through internet=Path | ||||
| 3 | use | present | data centres | huge amounts of electricity and cooling | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Patient | ||||
| 4 | amount | electricity and cooling | nom amount «possession 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:17.
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): no change. 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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