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title: From the late 1970s companies such as Apple, IBM and Microsoft made… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics
description: From the late 1970s companies such as Apple, IBM and Microsoft made computers and software for homes and offices. Who acts: companies. A sentence of the lesson «Computers and the internet» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Computers and the internet, sentence 11

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From the late 1970s companies such as Apple, IBM and Microsoft made computers and software for homes and offices.

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**Who acts:** companies · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** late 1970s

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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 (companies), 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:11
# text = From the late 1970s companies such as Apple, IBM and Microsoft made computers and software for homes and offices.
# 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 ×3
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
4	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
5	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	Apple	Apple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	IBM	IBM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Microsoft	Microsoft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	software	software	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | companies such Apple and IBM and Microsoft | the late 1970s |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent computer=Product for home=Asset |

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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:11`.

**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 ×3. **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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