--- title: Touch screens do not work with most gloves because they need the ele… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics description: Touch screens do not work with most gloves because they need the electricity of your skin; a cracked screen can cut fingers, so cover it until it is fixed. Who acts: Touch screens, screens, cracked screen. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Touch screens, screens, cracked screen), 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:11 # text = Touch screens do not work with most gloves because they need the electricity of your skin; a cracked screen can cut fingers, so cover it until it is fixed. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 cracked crack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 until until SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 32 . . 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 | **not** **work** | present · do-support | Touch screens | | | | | with most gloves | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with glove=Co-Agent | | 2 | **need** | present | screens *= screen* | the electricity of your skin | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot electricity=Theme | | 3 | **crack** | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cut** | can | a cracked screen | fingers | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=Product | | 5 | **cover** | infinitive | a cracked screen *not said here* | finger | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 6 | **fix** | present · passive | | finger | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **electrify** | | | your skin | | | | | nom electricity «phenomenon 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:009-phones-and-computer-chips.lesson:11`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Phones and computer chips, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/10/) - next →: [Phones and computer chips, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/)