--- title: In the 1840s Ada Lovelace wrote what many call the first computer pr… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1840s Ada Lovelace wrote what many call the first computer program, for Charles Babbage's planned calculating machine, which was never finished. Who acts: Ada, many. 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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 (Ada, many), 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:5 # text = In the 1840s Ada Lovelace wrote what many call the first computer program, for Charles Babbage's planned calculating machine, which was never finished. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1840s 1840 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 4 Ada Ada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 Lovelace Lovelace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ _ 9 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 12 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 program program NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 16 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 17 Babbage Babbage PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 19 planned plan VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 20 calculating calculate NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 21 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | Ada | | | the 1840s | | for Charles's planned calculating machine | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme in 1840=Destination | | 2 | **call** | present | many | the first computer program | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent program=Recipient | | 3 | **plan** | participle | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **finish** | past · passive | | Charles's planned calculating machine | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | 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:5`. **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): R7-rel-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/4/) - next →: [Computers and the internet, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/)