Computers and screens, sentence 8
A computer has a processor that follows instructions very fast, memory that holds what it is working on and storage that keeps files when it is switched off; a modern processor does billions of simple steps every second.
Who acts: computer, processor, memory, storage, modern processor · What happens: have, follow, hold, work on, keep, switch off · To what, where: processor, instructions, files, computer, billions
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, processor, memory, storage), 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 computer | det |
| 2 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 processor | det |
| 5 | processor | processor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 follows | nsubj |
| 7 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 processor | acl:relcl |
| 8 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 follows | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 fast | advmod |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 follows | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 memory | punct |
| 12 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 processor | appos |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 holds | nsubj |
| 14 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 memory | acl:relcl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 working | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 working | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 working | aux |
| 18 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 holds | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 working | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 storage | cc |
| 21 | storage | storage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 memory | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 keeps | nsubj |
| 23 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 storage | acl:relcl |
| 24 | files | file | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 keeps | obj |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 switched | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 switched | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 switched | aux:pass |
| 28 | switched | switch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 keeps | advcl |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 switched | compound:prt |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 does | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 processor | det |
| 32 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 processor | amod |
| 33 | processor | processor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 does | nsubj |
| 34 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 35 | billions | billion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 does | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 steps | case |
| 37 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 steps | amod |
| 38 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 billions | nmod |
| 39 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 second | det |
| 40 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 does | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | 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 | have | present | a computer | a processor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent processor=Patient | ||||
| 2 | follow | present | a processor | instructions | fast property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | |||
| 3 | hold | present | memory and storage | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | work on | present · progressive | computer | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | keep | present | storage | files | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent file=Theme | ||||
| 6 | switch off | present · passive | computer | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | do | present | a modern processor | billions of simple steps | second | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billion=Eventuality |
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:8.
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. 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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