--- title: A circuit board is a green board with copper tracks; robots place ti… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics description: A circuit board is a green board with copper tracks; robots place tiny parts, tens of thousands an hour, and an oven melts solder, a metal that melts easily, to fix them. Who acts: circuit board, robots, oven, metal. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» of the technology course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Phones and computer chips](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/) / 12 # Phones and computer chips, sentence 12 A circuit board is a green board with copper tracks; robots place tiny parts, tens of thousands an hour, and an oven melts solder, a metal that melts easily, to fix them. **Who acts:** circuit board, robots, oven, metal · **What happens:** be, place, melt, fix · **To what, where:** green board, tiny parts, solder, parts 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 (circuit board, robots, oven, metal), 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:12 # text = A circuit board is a green board with copper tracks; robots place tiny parts, tens of thousands an hour, and an oven melts solder, a metal that melts easily, to fix them. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 circuit circuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 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 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 robots robot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 place place VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 27 solder solder NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 easily easily ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a circuit board | a green board | | | | with copper tracks | tree rules | | 2 | **place** | present | robots | tiny parts | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 3 | **melt** | present | a oven | solder | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient solder=Result | | 4 | **melt** | present | a metal | | | | | easily *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **fix** | to-infinitive | robots *not said here* | parts *= part* | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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: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): 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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/11/) - next →: [Phones and computer chips, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/)