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title: In the late 1950s engineers invented the microchip, which put many t… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics
description: In the late 1950s engineers invented the microchip, which put many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon. Who acts: engineers, microchip. 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 claus
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# Computers and the internet, sentence 9

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In the late 1950s engineers invented the microchip, which put many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon.

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**Who acts:** engineers, microchip · **What happens:** invent, put · **To what, where:** microchip, late 1950s, many tiny parts, small piece

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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 (engineers, microchip), 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:9
# text = In the late 1950s engineers invented the microchip, which put many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
5	engineers	engineer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	microchip	microchip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	silicon	silicon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past | engineers | the microchip |  | the late 1950s |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent microchip=Result |
| 2 | **put** | past | the microchip | many tiny parts |  | a small piece of silicon |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent part=Goal |

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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:9`.

**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/).

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