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title: The first electronic computers, in the 1940s, filled whole rooms and… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics
description: The first electronic computers, in the 1940s, filled whole rooms and were used to break codes and do huge calculations. 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 7

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The first electronic computers, in the 1940s, filled whole rooms and were used to break codes and do huge calculations.

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**What happens:** fill, use, break, do · **To what, where:** first electronic computers, 1940s, codes, huge calculations

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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: 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:7
# text = The first electronic computers, in the 1940s, filled whole rooms and were used to break codes and do huge calculations.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	electronic	electronic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	1940s	1940	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	calculations	calculation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the first electronic computers |  | the 1940s |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **break** | to-infinitive |  | codes |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer code=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive |  | huge calculations |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calculation=Eventuality |

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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:7`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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