Phones and computer chips, sentence 8

Silicon comes from sand made extremely pure; it is melted and a big crystal is slowly pulled out as a cylinder, then sliced into thin shiny discs called wafers.

Who acts: Silicon, thin shiny discs · What happens: come, make, melt, pull out, slice, call · To what, where: sand, silicon, big crystal, wafers · 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 (Silicon, thin shiny discs), 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	Silicon	silicon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 sand	case
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sand	acl
6	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	7 pure	advmod
7	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 melted	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 melted	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 melted	aux:pass
11	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 comes	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pulled	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crystal	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 crystal	amod
15	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pulled	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pulled	aux:pass
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	18 pulled	advmod
18	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 melted	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 pulled	compound:prt
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 cylinder	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cylinder	det
22	cylinder	cylinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pulled	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sliced	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 sliced	advmod
25	sliced	slice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 pulled	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 discs	case
27	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 discs	amod
28	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 discs	amod
29	discs	disc	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sliced	obl
30	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 discs	acl
31	wafers	wafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 called	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Silicon		sand			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sand=Initial_Location
2	make	participle		sand not said here			pure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	melt	present · passive		silicon				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
4	pull out	present · passive		a big crystal			as a cylinder; slowly property	tree rules
5	slice	participle				then	into thin shiny discs	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into disc=Patient
6	call	participle	thin shiny discs not said here	wafers				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:8.

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 ×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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