--- title: Silicon comes from sand made extremely pure; it is melted and a big… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics description: Silicon comes from sand made extremely pure; it is melted and a big crystal is slowly pulled out as a cylinder, then sliced into thin shiny discs called wafers. Who acts: Silicon, thin shiny discs. 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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 (Silicon, thin shiny discs), 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:8 # text = Silicon comes from sand made extremely pure; it is melted and a big crystal is slowly pulled out as a cylinder, then sliced into thin shiny discs called wafers. # 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 Silicon silicon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 extremely extremely ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 cylinder cylinder NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 sliced slice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 discs disc NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 wafers wafer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Silicon | | | sand | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sand=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **make** | participle | | sand *not said here* | | | | pure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **melt** | present · passive | | silicon | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 4 | **pull out** | present · passive | | a big crystal | | | | as a cylinder; slowly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **slice** | participle | | | | | then | into thin shiny discs | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into disc=Patient | | 6 | **call** | participle | thin shiny discs *not said here* | wafers | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:8`. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/7/) - next →: [Phones and computer chips, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/)