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title: A search engine uses programs that crawl the web and build a huge in… — The internet and undersea cables · tree and pragmatics
description: A search engine uses programs that crawl the web and build a huge index, then ranks pages for your words; results are not always true, so check sources. Who acts: search engine, programs, results, your. A sentence of the lesson «The internet and undersea cables» of the technology course of Mova's pr
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# The internet and undersea cables, sentence 12

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A search engine uses programs that crawl the web and build a huge index, then ranks pages for your words; results are not always true, so check sources.

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**Who acts:** search engine, programs, results, your · **What happens:** use, crawl, build, rank, not be, check · **To what, where:** programs, web, huge index, pages, sources

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The internet and undersea cables» 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 (search engine, programs, results, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:037-the-internet-and-undersea-cables.lesson:12
# text = A search engine uses programs that crawl the web and build a huge index, then ranks pages for your words; results are not always true, so check sources.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 037-the-internet-and-undersea-cables.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	programs	program	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
11	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	ranks	rank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
27	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **use** | present | a search engine | programs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent program=Patient |
| 2 | **crawl** | present | programs | the web |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location web=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | present | programs *not said here* | a huge index |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset index=Product |
| 4 | **rank** | present | a search engine *not said here* | pages |  |  | then | for your words | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent page=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | results |  |  |  |  | always, true *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **check** | infinitive |  | sources |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme |
| 7 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:037-the-internet-and-undersea-cables.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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