Phones and computer chips, sentence 17

Under each laptop key is a tiny switch on a thin layer of circuits; pressing it closes a contact and the computer reads which key it was, and spilled drinks can ruin a laptop.

Who acts: laptop key, computer, spilled drinks · What happens: be, press, close, read, spill, ruin · To what, where: tiny switch, key, contact, laptop

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 (laptop key, computer, spilled drinks), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	8 switch	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 key	det
3	laptop	laptop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 key	compound
4	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 switch	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 switch	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 switch	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 switch	amod
8	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 closes	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 layer	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 layer	det
11	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 layer	amod
12	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 switch	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 circuits	case
14	circuits	circuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 layer	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 pressing	punct
16	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 closes	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pressing	obj
18	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 contact	det
20	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 closes	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 reads	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 computer	det
23	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reads	nsubj
24	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 closes	conj
25	which	which	DET	PronType=Rel	26 key	det
26	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reads	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 was	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 key	cop
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ruin	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 ruin	cc
31	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 drinks	amod
32	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 ruin	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 ruin	aux
34	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 closes	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 laptop	det
36	laptop	laptop	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ruin	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 closes	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	present	each laptop key		a tiny switch	on a thin layer of circuits	tree rules
2	press	gerund		key			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	close	present		a contact			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contact=Patient
4	read	present	the computer				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	the computer not said here	which key			tree rules
6	spill	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ruin	can	spilled drinks	a laptop			vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument laptop=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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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