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title: Computers store everything, every photo, song and game, as ones and… — Computers and screens · tree and pragmatics
description: Computers store everything, every photo, song and game, as ones and zeros, called binary, like switches that are on or off. Who acts: Computers. 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 cla
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# Computers and screens, sentence 9

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Computers store everything, every photo, song and game, as ones and zeros, called binary, like switches that are on or off.

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**Who acts:** Computers · **What happens:** store, call · **To what, where:** everything, ones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Computers), 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:9
# text = Computers store everything, every photo, song and game, as ones and zeros, called binary, like switches that are on or off.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	store	store	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	zeros	zero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
18	binary	binary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	switches	switch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	off	off	ADV	RB	_	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **store** | present | Computers | everything |  |  |  | as ones and zeros | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | ones and zeros *not said here* |  |  |  | like switches; binary *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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: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): R8-pos-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/).

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