Phones and computer chips, sentence 0

Inside your phone is a computer chip smaller than a fingernail holding billions of tiny switches, printed with light onto a thin slice of silicon, which comes from sand made extremely pure.

Who acts: fingernail, thin slice · What happens: be, hold, print, come, make, slice · To what, where: computer chip, phone, billions, thin slice, sand, silicon

This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» 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 (fingernail, thin slice), 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	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 phone	case
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 phone	nmod:poss
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chip	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chip	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chip	det
6	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chip	compound
7	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 chip	amod
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 fingernail	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fingernail	det
11	fingernail	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smaller	obl
12	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 fingernail	acl
13	billions	billion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 holding	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 switches	case
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 switches	amod
16	switches	switch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 billions	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 printed	punct
18	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 chip	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 light	case
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 printed	obl
21	onto	onto	ADP	_	24 slice	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 slice	det
23	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 slice	amod
24	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 printed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 silicon	case
26	silicon	silicon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 slice	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 comes	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 comes	nsubj
29	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 slice	acl:relcl
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 sand	case
31	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comes	obl
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 sand	acl
33	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	34 pure	advmod
34	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 made	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chip	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a computer chip	your phone		tree rules
2	hold	gerund	a fingernail not said here	billions of tiny switches			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billion=Theme
3	print	participle		a computer chip not said here	a thin slice of silicon	with light	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	present	a thin slice of silicon		sand		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sand=Initial_Location
5	make	participle		sand not said here		pure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	slice			silicon			nom slice «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:009-phones-and-computer-chips.lesson:0.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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