--- title: Alan Turing helped break German codes at Bletchley Park in the Secon… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics description: Alan Turing helped break German codes at Bletchley Park in the Second World War and described how computers could work and even think, ideas at the base of computer science. Who acts: Alan, computers. 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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 (Alan, 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:8 # text = Alan Turing helped break German codes at Bletchley Park in the Second World War and described how computers could work and even think, ideas at the base of computer science. # 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 Alan Alan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Turing Turing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 5 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 codes code NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 Bletchley Bletchley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 Second Second ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 amod _ _ 13 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 described describe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 . . 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 | **help** | past | Alan | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **break** | infinitive | Alan *not said here* | German codes | | Bletchley Park | | in the Second World War | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer code=Patient | | 3 | **describe** | past | Alan *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **work** | could | computers | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | computers *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:8`. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/7/) - next →: [Computers and the internet, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/)