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title: The internet began in 1969 by linking a few computers in American un… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics
description: The internet began in 1969 by linking a few computers in American universities and grew into a worldwide network. Who acts: internet. 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 12

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The internet began in 1969 by linking a few computers in American universities and grew into a worldwide network.

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**Who acts:** internet · **What happens:** begin, link, grow · **To what, where:** 1969, few computers, American universities, worldwide network

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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 (internet), 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:12
# text = The internet began in 1969 by linking a few computers in American universities and grew into a worldwide network.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1969	1969	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	linking	link	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	worldwide	worldwide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **begin** | past | the internet |  |  | 1969 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **link** | gerund | the internet *not said here* | a few computers |  | American universities |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent computer=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the internet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a worldwide network *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into network=Result |

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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:12`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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