--- title: The first electronic computers of the 1940s filled whole rooms and w… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics description: The first electronic computers of the 1940s filled whole rooms and were used to break codes and do huge sums; at Bletchley Park in Britain, Alan Turing helped break secret German codes in the Second World War. Who acts: first electronic computers, Alan. 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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 (first electronic computers, Alan), 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:1 # text = The first electronic computers of the 1940s filled whole rooms and were used to break codes and do huge sums; at Bletchley Park in Britain, Alan Turing helped break secret German codes in the Second World War. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 3 electronic electronic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 1940s 1940 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 8 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 codes code NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 sums sum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 Bletchley Bletchley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 Alan Alan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 Turing Turing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 31 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 32 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 codes code NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 Second Second ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 39 amod _ _ 38 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | past | the first electronic computers of the 1940s | whole rooms | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient | | 2 | **use** | past · passive | the first electronic computers of the 1940s *not said here* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **break** | to-infinitive | the first electronic computers of the 1940s *not said here* | codes | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer code=Patient | | 4 | **do** | infinitive | the first electronic computers of the 1940s *not said here* | huge sums | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality | | 5 | **help** | past | Alan | | | Bletchley Park in Britain | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **break** | infinitive | Alan *not said here* | secret German codes | | the Second World War | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer code=Patient | 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:1`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [Computers and the internet, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/0/) - next →: [Computers and the internet, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/)