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title: The internet brought video calls, online shops and encyclopedias, bu… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics
description: The internet brought video calls, online shops and encyclopedias, but also scams and false news, so checking sources is an important skill. Who acts: internet, checking. A sentence of the lesson «Computers and the internet» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Computers and the internet, sentence 16

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The internet brought video calls, online shops and encyclopedias, but also scams and false news, so checking sources is an important skill.

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**Who acts:** internet, checking · **What happens:** bring, check, be · **To what, where:** video calls, sources, important skill

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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, checking), 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:16
# text = The internet brought video calls, online shops and encyclopedias, but also scams and false news, so checking sources is an important skill.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
4	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	encyclopedias	encyclopedia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	scams	scam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
21	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the internet | video calls and online shops and encyclopedias but scams and false news |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent call=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | gerund |  | sources |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | checking | a important skill |  |  |  |  | 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:16`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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