--- title: Phones are checked before sale: screens, cameras, buttons, speakers… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics description: Phones are checked before sale: screens, cameras, buttons, speakers and batteries are tested, and in test labs some phones are dropped, bent and dunked in water on purpose. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Phones and computer chips, sentence 15 Phones are checked before sale: screens, cameras, buttons, speakers and batteries are tested, and in test labs some phones are dropped, bent and dunked in water on purpose. **What happens:** check, test, drop, bend, dunk · **To what, where:** Phones, screens, test labs, water 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: 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:15 # text = Phones are checked before sale: screens, cameras, buttons, speakers and batteries are tested, and in test labs some phones are dropped, bent and dunked in water on purpose. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sale sale NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 cameras camera NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 buttons button NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 labs lab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 dunked dunk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | present · passive | | Phones | | | before sale | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **test** | present · passive | | screens and cameras and buttons and speakers and batteries | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **drop** | present · passive | | some phones | | test labs | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in lab=Destination | | 4 | **bend** | participle | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **dunk** | participle | | | | water on purpose | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in water=Trajectory | 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:15`. **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/). - ← previous: [Phones and computer chips, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/13/) - next →: [Phones and computer chips, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/)