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title: Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. — Communication: letters, phones, radio and the in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Who acts: Tim. A sentence of the lesson «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 22

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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.

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**Who acts:** Tim · **What happens:** invent · **To what, where:** World Wide Web, 1989

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world 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 (Tim), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet.lesson:22
# text = Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 100-communication-letters-to-internet.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Berners	Berners	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
4	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Web	web	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **invent** | past | Tim | the World Wide Web |  | 1989 |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Result |

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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:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet.lesson:22`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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