--- title: A computer chip has billions of tiny switches printed layer by layer… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics description: A computer chip has billions of tiny switches printed layer by layer with light onto very pure silicon; the newest chips are described in nanometres, billionths of a metre. Who acts: computer chip, billions. 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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 (computer chip, billions), 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:5 # text = A computer chip has billions of tiny switches printed layer by layer with light onto very pure silicon; the newest chips are described in nanometres, billionths of a metre. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 chip chip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 billions billion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 switches switch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 printed print VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 10 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 onto onto ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 silicon silicon NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 newest new ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 nanometres nanometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 billionths billionth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **have** | present | a computer chip | billions of tiny switches | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billion=Patient | | 2 | **print** | participle | billions of tiny switches *not said here* | layer | | | | by layer with light onto pure silicon | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Theme | | 3 | **describe** | present · passive | | the newest chips | | nanometres | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme | 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:5`. **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 ×2. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/3/) - next →: [Phones and computer chips, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/)