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title: Ada Lovelace imagined that computers could one day do more than numb… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics
description: Ada Lovelace imagined that computers could one day do more than numbers, even make music. Who acts: Ada, computers. A sentence of the lesson «Computers and the internet» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Computers and the internet, sentence 6

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Ada Lovelace imagined that computers could one day do more than numbers, even make music.

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**Who acts:** Ada, computers · **What happens:** imagine, do, make · **To what, where:** more, music

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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 (Ada, computers), 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:6
# text = Ada Lovelace imagined that computers could one day do more than numbers, even make music.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Ada	Ada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Lovelace	Lovelace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:aux
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **imagine** | past | Ada |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | could | computers | more |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | computers *not said here* | music |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset music=Product |

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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:6`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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