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title: Inside your phone is a computer chip smaller than a fingernail holdi… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside your phone is a computer chip smaller than a fingernail holding billions of tiny switches, printed with light onto a thin slice of silicon, which comes from sand made extremely pure. Who acts: fingernail, thin slice. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» of the technology cours
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# Phones and computer chips, sentence 0

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Inside your phone is a computer chip smaller than a fingernail holding billions of tiny switches, printed with light onto a thin slice of silicon, which comes from sand made extremely pure.

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**Who acts:** fingernail, thin slice · **What happens:** be, hold, print, come, make, slice · **To what, where:** computer chip, phone, billions, thin slice, sand, silicon

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» 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 (fingernail, thin slice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:009-phones-and-computer-chips.lesson:0
# text = Inside your phone is a computer chip smaller than a fingernail holding billions of tiny switches, printed with light onto a thin slice of silicon, which comes from sand made extremely pure.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 009-phones-and-computer-chips.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	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fingernail	fingernail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	billions	billion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	switches	switch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	silicon	silicon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a computer chip |  | your phone |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | a fingernail *not said here* | billions of tiny switches |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billion=Theme |
| 3 | **print** | participle |  | a computer chip *not said here* |  | a thin slice of silicon |  | with light | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present | a thin slice of silicon |  |  | sand |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sand=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  | sand *not said here* |  |  |  | pure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **slice** |  |  | silicon |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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:009-phones-and-computer-chips.lesson:0`.

**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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