Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 4
A computer is a machine that follows instructions called a program.
Who acts: computer, machine, instructions · What happens: be, follow, call · To what, where: machine, instructions, program · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Inventions, computers and the internet» of the world 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, machine, instructions), 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 | 2 computer | det |
| 2 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 machine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 machine | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 machine | det |
| 5 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 follows | nsubj |
| 7 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 machine | acl:relcl |
| 8 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 follows | obj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 instructions | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 program | det |
| 11 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 machine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a computer | a machine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | present | a machine | instructions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | instructions not said here | a program | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent program=Recipient |
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:world:059-inventions-computers-internet.lesson:4.
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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