--- title: Under each laptop key is a tiny switch on a thin layer of circuits;… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics description: Under each laptop key is a tiny switch on a thin layer of circuits; pressing it closes a contact and the computer reads which key it was, and spilled drinks can ruin a laptop. Who acts: laptop key, computer, spilled drinks. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» of the technology cours --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Phones and computer chips, sentence 17 Under each laptop key is a tiny switch on a thin layer of circuits; pressing it closes a contact and the computer reads which key it was, and spilled drinks can ruin a laptop. **Who acts:** laptop key, computer, spilled drinks · **What happens:** be, press, close, read, spill, ruin · **To what, where:** tiny switch, key, contact, laptop 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 (laptop key, computer, spilled drinks), 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:17 # text = Under each laptop key is a tiny switch on a thin layer of circuits; pressing it closes a contact and the computer reads which key it was, and spilled drinks can ruin a laptop. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 2 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 3 laptop laptop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 switch switch NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 circuits circuit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 pressing press VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj 18 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det 23 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound 24 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 which which DET WDT PronType=Rel 26 det _ _ 26 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:acl:relcl 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 spilled spill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 ruin ruin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 laptop laptop NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 18 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 | **is** | present | each laptop key | | | a tiny switch | | on a thin layer of circuits | tree rules | | 2 | **press** | gerund | | key | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **close** | present | | a contact | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contact=Patient | | 4 | **read** | present | the computer | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | the computer *not said here* | which key | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **spill** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **ruin** | can | spilled drinks | a laptop | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument laptop=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:17`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/16/) - next →: [Phones and computer chips, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/)