--- title: The internet began in 1969 by linking a few American university comp… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics description: The internet began in 1969 by linking a few American university computers, and in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web of pages and links and gave it to the world for free. Who acts: internet, Tim. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (internet, 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:3 # text = The internet began in 1969 by linking a few American university computers, and in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web of pages and links and gave it 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 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 12 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 university university NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 17 Tim Tim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 Berners Berners PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Lee Lee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 21 invented invent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 Wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Web web PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 links link NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **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 American university computers | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent computer=Patient | | 3 | **invent** | past | Tim | the World Wide Web of pages and links | | 1989 | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Result | | 4 | **give** | past | Tim *not said here* | Web | the world | | | for free | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to world=Recipient for free=Asset | 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:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Computers and the internet, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/2/) - next →: [Computers and the internet, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/)