Phones and computer chips, sentence 5

A computer chip has billions of tiny switches printed layer by layer with light onto very pure silicon; the newest chips are described in nanometres, billionths of a metre.

Who acts: computer chip, billions · What happens: have, print, describe · To what, where: billions, layer, newest chips, nanometres

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 (computer chip, billions), 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 chip	det
2	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chip	compound
3	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	billions	billion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 switches	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 switches	amod
8	switches	switch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 billions	nmod
9	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 billions	acl
10	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 printed	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 layer	case
12	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 printed	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 light	case
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 layer	nmod
15	onto	onto	ADP	_	18 silicon	case
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 pure	advmod
17	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 silicon	amod
18	silicon	silicon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 light	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 described	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chips	det
21	newest	new	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 chips	amod
22	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 described	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 described	aux:pass
24	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 has	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 nanometres	case
26	nanometres	nanometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 described	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 billionths	punct
28	billionths	billionth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 nanometres	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 metre	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 metre	det
31	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 billionths	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	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	have	present	a computer chip	billions of tiny switches			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billion=Patient
2	print	participle	billions of tiny switches not said here	layer		by layer with light onto pure silicon	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Theme
3	describe	present · passive		the newest chips	nanometres		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme

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:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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