Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms, sentence 16
A Wi-Fi router is a small radio station that talks to your devices by radio and passes data along a cable to the internet; thick walls, mirrors and fish tanks can weaken the signal.
Who acts: Wi Fi router, small radio station, thick walls · What happens: be, talk, pass, weaken · To what, where: small radio station, data, cable, signal
This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» 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 (Wi Fi router, small radio station, thick walls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 router | det |
| 2 | Wi | Wi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 router | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wi | punct |
| 4 | Fi | fi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 router | compound |
| 5 | router | router | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 station | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 station | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 station | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 station | amod |
| 9 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 station | compound |
| 10 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 talks | nsubj |
| 12 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 station | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 devices | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 devices | nmod:poss |
| 15 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 talks | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 radio | case |
| 17 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talks | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 passes | cc |
| 19 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 talks | conj |
| 20 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passes | obj |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 cable | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cable | det |
| 23 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passes | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 internet | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 internet | det |
| 26 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cable | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 walls | punct |
| 28 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 walls | amod |
| 29 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 weaken | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mirrors | punct |
| 31 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 walls | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 tanks | cc |
| 33 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tanks | compound |
| 34 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 walls | conj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 weaken | aux |
| 36 | weaken | weaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 talks | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 signal | det |
| 38 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 weaken | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 station | punct |
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 | is a | present | a Wi Fi router | a small radio station | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | a small radio station | to your devices; by radio | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to device=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | pass | present | a small radio station not said here | data | a cable to the internet | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent data=Theme along cable=Destination | |||
| 4 | weaken | can | thick walls and mirrors and fish tanks | the signal | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent signal=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, 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:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:16.
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.
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