Phones and computer chips, sentence 10
A phone screen has tough glass over layers of tiny coloured lights and a see-through grid that senses where your finger is by a small electric change.
Who acts: phone screen, see through grid, finger · What happens: have, see, sense, be · To what, where: tough glass, layers
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 (phone screen, see through grid, finger), 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 | 3 screen | det |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 screen | compound |
| 3 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 glass | amod |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 layers | case |
| 8 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glass | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lights | case |
| 10 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lights | amod |
| 11 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lights | amod |
| 12 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 layers | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grid | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 grid | det |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 grid | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 through | punct |
| 17 | through | thorough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grid | amod |
| 18 | grid | grid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glass | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 senses | nsubj |
| 20 | senses | sense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 grid | acl:relcl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 change | advmod |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 finger | nmod:poss |
| 23 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 change | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 change | cop |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 change | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 change | det |
| 27 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 change | amod |
| 28 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 change | amod |
| 29 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 senses | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a phone screen | tough glass and a see through grid | layers of tiny coloured lights | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | sense | present | a see through grid | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | your finger | by a small electric change | tree rules |
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:10.
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. 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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