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title: In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the W… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web of pages and links, and it was given to the world for free. Who acts: Tim. A sentence of the lesson «Computers and the internet» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Computers and the internet, sentence 13

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In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web of pages and links, and it was given to the world for free.

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**Who acts:** Tim · **What happens:** invent, give · **To what, where:** World Wide Web, 1989, Web, world

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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 (Tim), 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:13
# text = In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web of pages and links, and it was given to the world for free.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
3	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	Berners	Berners	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	CERN	CERN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	Wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Web	web	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **invent** | past | Tim | the World Wide Web of pages and links |  | 1989 |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Result |
| 2 | **give** | past · passive |  | Web | the world |  |  | for free | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to world=Recipient for free=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:13`.

**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): 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/).

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