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title: All that work makes the chips hot, so a fan blows air over metal fin… — Computers and screens · tree and pragmatics
description: All that work makes the chips hot, so a fan blows air over metal fins, which is why a laptop roars during a big game. Who acts: work, fan, laptop. A sentence of the lesson «Computers and screens» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Computers and screens, sentence 6

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All that work makes the chips hot, so a fan blows air over metal fins, which is why a laptop roars during a big game.

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**Who acts:** work, fan, laptop · **What happens:** make, blow, be, roar · **To what, where:** chips, air, metal fins

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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 (work, fan, laptop), 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:6
# text = All that work makes the chips hot, so a fan blows air over metal fins, which is why a laptop roars during a big game.
# 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): no change
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	laptop	laptop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	roars	roar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	during	during	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | all work | the chips |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chip=Product |
| 2 | **blow** | present | a fan | air |  | metal fins |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roar** | present | a laptop |  |  |  | during a big game |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:technology:036-computers-and-screens.lesson:6`.

**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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