Phones and computer chips, sentence 9

Smartphones are assembled from parts made by many companies, in big factories many of them in China, India and Vietnam, and one phone contains dozens of different chemical elements.

Who acts: one phone · What happens: assemble, make, contain · To what, where: Smartphones, parts, dozens

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 (one phone), 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	Smartphones	smartphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assembled	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 assembled	aux:pass
3	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 parts	case
5	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assembled	obl
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 parts	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 companies	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 companies	amod
9	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl:agent
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 factories	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 factories	case
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 factories	amod
13	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assembled	obl
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 factories	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 many	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 China	case
18	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 factories	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 India	punct
20	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 China	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Vietnam	cc
22	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 China	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 contains	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 contains	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 phone	nummod
26	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 contains	nsubj
27	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 assembled	conj
28	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 contains	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 elements	case
30	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 elements	amod
31	chemical	chemical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 elements	amod
32	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dozens	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assembled	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	assemble	present · passive		Smartphones	parts	in big factories in China and India and Vietnam	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: subject=Product from part=Material
2	make	participle		parts not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	contain	present	one phone	dozens of different chemical elements			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dozen=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:9.

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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/9/