--- title: A password is a secret that proves it is you, and computers store on… — Computers and screens · tree and pragmatics description: A password is a secret that proves it is you, and computers store only a scrambled version of it; long phrases of random words can be stronger than short tricky ones. Who acts: password, secret, computers, long phrases. A sentence of the lesson «Computers and screens» of the technology course of Mov --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Computers and screens, sentence 18 A password is a secret that proves it is you, and computers store only a scrambled version of it; long phrases of random words can be stronger than short tricky ones. **Who acts:** password, secret, computers, long phrases · **What happens:** be, prove, store, scramble, phrase · **To what, where:** secret, you, scrambled version, random words 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 (password, secret, computers, long phrases), 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:18 # text = A password is a secret that proves it is you, and computers store only a scrambled version of it; long phrases of random words can be stronger than short tricky ones. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 password password NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 scrambled scramble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 phrases phrase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 random random ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 29 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 30 than than ADP IN _ 33 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 31 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 tricky tricky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advcl 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a password | a secret | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **prove** | present | a secret | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | password | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **store** | present | computers | a scrambled version of password | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme | | 5 | **scramble** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | can | long phrases of random words | | | | | than short tricky ones; strong *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **phrase** | | | random words | | | | | nom phrase «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:18`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/36-computers-and-screens/17/) - next →: [Computers and screens, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/36-computers-and-screens/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/36-computers-and-screens/)