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title: Microchips made computers small and cheap enough for homes, cars and… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics
description: Microchips made computers small and cheap enough for homes, cars and phones, and a phone today is millions of times more powerful than the first computers. Who acts: Microchips, phone today millions. A sentence of the lesson «Computers and the internet» of the history course of Mova's primary school
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# Computers and the internet, sentence 10

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Microchips made computers small and cheap enough for homes, cars and phones, and a phone today is millions of times more powerful than the first computers.

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**Who acts:** Microchips, phone today millions · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** computers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Computers and the internet» of the history 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 (Microchips, phone today millions), 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:10
# text = Microchips made computers small and cheap enough for homes, cars and phones, and a phone today is millions of times more powerful than the first computers.
# 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 ×2
1	Microchips	microchip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
17	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Microchips | computers |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset computer=Product |
| 2 | **is** | present | phone today millions of times |  |  |  |  | than the first computers; powerful *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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 ×2. **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/).

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