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title: Smartphones are assembled from parts made by many companies, in big… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics
description: Smartphones are assembled from parts made by many companies, in big factories many of them in China, India and Vietnam, and one phone contains dozens of different chemical elements. Who acts: one phone. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» of the technology course of Mova's primary s
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# Phones and computer chips, sentence 9

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Smartphones are assembled from parts made by many companies, in big factories many of them in China, India and Vietnam, and one phone contains dozens of different chemical elements.

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**Who acts:** one phone · **What happens:** assemble, make, contain · **To what, where:** Smartphones, parts, dozens

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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 (one phone), 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:9
# text = Smartphones are assembled from parts made by many companies, in big factories many of them in China, India and Vietnam, and one phone contains dozens of different chemical elements.
# 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	Smartphones	smartphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | present · passive |  | Smartphones |  | parts |  | in big factories in China and India and Vietnam | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: subject=Product from part=Material |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | parts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **contain** | present | one phone | dozens of different chemical elements |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dozen=Theme |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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