--- title: An inkjet printer sprays tiny drops of ink, while a laser printer us… — Computers and screens · tree and pragmatics description: An inkjet printer sprays tiny drops of ink, while a laser printer uses a laser to put powder on the paper and heat to fix it, which is why its pages come out warm. Who acts: inkjet printer, laser printer, pages, heat. A sentence of the lesson «Computers and screens» of the technology course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/36-computers-and-screens/16/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Computers and screens](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/36-computers-and-screens/) / 16 # Computers and screens, sentence 16 An inkjet printer sprays tiny drops of ink, while a laser printer uses a laser to put powder on the paper and heat to fix it, which is why its pages come out warm. **Who acts:** inkjet printer, laser printer, pages, heat · **What happens:** spray, use, put, fix, be, come out · **To what, where:** tiny drops, laser, powder, paper This is a sentence of the lesson «Computers and screens» of the technology 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 (inkjet printer, laser printer, pages, heat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:036-computers-and-screens.lesson:16 # text = An inkjet printer sprays tiny drops of ink, while a laser printer uses a laser to put powder on the paper and heat to fix it, which is why its pages come out warm. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 036-computers-and-screens.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 inkjet inkjet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 printer printer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sprays spray VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 laser laser NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 printer printer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 laser laser NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl 19 powder powder NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 parataxis _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 35 out out ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spray** | present | a inkjet printer | tiny drops of ink | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | | 2 | **use** | present | a laser printer | a laser | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laser=Patient | | 3 | **put** | to-infinitive | a laser printer *not said here* | powder | | the paper and heat | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent powder=Theme on paper=Destination | | 4 | **fix** | to-infinitive | a laser printer *not said here* | powder | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **come out** | present | heat's pages | | | | | out, warm *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **page** | | heat | | | | | | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=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:technology:036-computers-and-screens.lesson:16`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Computers and screens, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/36-computers-and-screens/15/) - next →: [Computers and screens, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/36-computers-and-screens/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/36-computers-and-screens/)