--- title: In the 1840s Ada Lovelace wrote what many call the first computer pr… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1840s Ada Lovelace wrote what many call the first computer program, for a calculating machine that Charles Babbage designed but never finished, and she imagined that one day machines might even make music. Who acts: Ada Lovelace, many, Charles, machines. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ada Lovelace, many, Charles, machines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:036-computers-and-the-internet.lesson:0 # text = In the 1840s Ada Lovelace wrote what many call the first computer program, for a calculating machine that Charles Babbage designed but never finished, and she imagined that one day machines might even make music. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 036-computers-and-the-internet.lesson # annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1840s 1840 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 4 Ada Ada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 5 Lovelace Lovelace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ _ 9 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 12 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 program program NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 calculating calculate NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 18 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obj _ _ 20 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 Babbage Babbage PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 designed design VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 finished finish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 imagined imagine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 even even ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 37 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | Ada Lovelace | | | the 1840s | | for a calculating machine | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme in 1840=Destination | | 2 | **call** | present | many | the first computer program | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent program=Recipient | | 3 | **design** | past | Charles | a calculating machine | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Result | | 4 | **not** **finish** | past | Charles *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **imagine** | past | Charles | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **make** | might | machines | music | | | day | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset music=Product | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:history:036-computers-and-the-internet.lesson:0`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Space: from Sputnik to the Moon, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/17/) - next →: [Computers and the internet, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/)