Phones and computer chips, sentence 18

The QWERTY order of keys comes from typewriters of the 1870s; a popular story says it slowed typists so the keys would not jam, but historians still argue about the real reason.

Who acts: QWERTY order, popular story, story, keys, historians · What happens: come, say, slow, not jam, argue, order · To what, where: typewriters, typists, keys · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (QWERTY order, popular story, story, keys), 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	3 order	det
2	QWERTY	QWERTY	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 order	compound
3	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 keys	case
5	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 order	nmod
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 typewriters	case
8	typewriters	typewriter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 comes	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 1870s	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 1870s	det
11	1870s	1870	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	8 typewriters	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 story	det
14	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 story	amod
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 comes	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 slowed	nsubj
18	slowed	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 says	ccomp
19	typists	typist	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 slowed	obj
20	so	so	SCONJ	_	25 jam	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 keys	det
22	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 jam	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 jam	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 jam	advmod
25	jam	jam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 slowed	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 argue	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 argue	cc
28	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 argue	nsubj
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 argue	advmod
30	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 comes	conj
31	about	about	ADP	_	34 reason	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 reason	det
33	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 reason	amod
34	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 argue	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the QWERTY order of keys		typewriters of the 1870s			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from typewriter=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	present	a popular story					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	slow	past	story	typists				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent typist=Patient
4	not jam	would	the keys					vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
5	argue speech: disagree	present	historians			still	about the real reason	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about reason=Topic
6	order			keys				nom order «communication 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:18.

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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