--- title: The microchip packed many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon,… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics description: The microchip packed many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon, which is why the phone in your pocket is millions of times more powerful than those room-sized machines. Who acts: microchip, silicon, phone. A sentence of the lesson «Computers and the internet» of the history course of Mova's prim --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Computers and the internet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/) / 2 # Computers and the internet, sentence 2 The microchip packed many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon, which is why the phone in your pocket is millions of times more powerful than those room-sized machines. **Who acts:** microchip, silicon, phone · **What happens:** pack, be, size · **To what, where:** many tiny parts, small piece, millions 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 (microchip, silicon, phone), 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:2 # text = The microchip packed many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon, which is why the phone in your pocket is millions of times more powerful than those room-sized machines. # 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 microchip microchip NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 packed pack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 onto onto ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 silicon silicon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl:relcl _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 30 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 sized size VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pack** | past | the microchip | many tiny parts | | a small piece of silicon | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme onto piece=Destination | | 2 | **is** | present | silicon | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the phone in your pocket | millions | | | time | | tree rules | | 4 | **size** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Computers and the internet, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/1/) - next →: [Computers and the internet, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/)