--- title: Technology gives old words new jobs: a computer mouse, the cloud (on… — Words that changed their meaning · tree and pragmatics description: Technology gives old words new jobs: a computer mouse, the cloud (online storage), a stream (watching online); the old meanings stay too. Who acts: Technology, stream, old meanings. A sentence of the lesson «Words that changed their meaning» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Words that changed their meaning](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/) / 12 # Words that changed their meaning, sentence 12 Technology gives old words new jobs: a computer mouse, the cloud (online storage), a stream (watching online); the old meanings stay too. **Who acts:** Technology, stream, old meanings · **What happens:** give, watch, stay · **To what, where:** new jobs, old words This is a sentence of the lesson «Words that changed their meaning» of the language 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 (Technology, stream, old meanings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson:12 # text = Technology gives old words new jobs: a computer mouse, the cloud (online storage), a stream (watching online); the old meanings stay too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Technology technology NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 online online ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 storage storage NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 23 online online ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 30 too too ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Technology | new jobs | old words | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent word=Recipient job=Theme | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | a stream *not said here* | | | | | online *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stay** | present | the old meanings | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:language:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson:12`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Words that changed their meaning, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/11/) - next →: [Words that changed their meaning, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/)