--- title: The QWERTY order of keys comes from typewriters of the 1870s; a popu… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics description: The QWERTY order of keys comes from typewriters of the 1870s; a popular story says it slowed typists so the keys would not jam, but historians still argue about the real reason. Who acts: QWERTY order, popular story, story, keys. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» of the technology --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Phones and computer chips, sentence 18 The QWERTY order of keys comes from typewriters of the 1870s; a popular story says it slowed typists so the keys would not jam, but historians still argue about the real reason. **Who acts:** QWERTY order, popular story, story, keys, historians · **What happens:** come, say, slow, not jam, argue, order · **To what, where:** typewriters, typists, keys · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (QWERTY order, popular story, story, keys), 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:18 # text = The QWERTY order of keys comes from typewriters of the 1870s; a popular story says it slowed typists so the keys would not jam, but historians still argue about the real reason. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 QWERTY QWERTY PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 typewriters typewriter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 1870s 1870 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 slowed slow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 typists typist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 so so SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 jam jam VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 still still ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 31 about about ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | the QWERTY order of keys | | | typewriters of the 1870s | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from typewriter=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a popular story | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **slow** | past | story | typists | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent typist=Patient | | 4 | **not** **jam** | would | the keys | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | historians | | | | still | about the real reason | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about reason=Topic | | 6 | **order** | | | keys | | | | | nom order «communication 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. 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