Phones and how a call travels, sentence 0

When you ring Grandma, your phone's microphone turns the wobbles of your voice into electric signals, and the phone turns those into numbers.

Who acts: you, microphone, phone, voice · What happens: ring, turn, wobble · To what, where: Grandma, wobbles, electric signals, those, numbers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and how a call travels» 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 (you, microphone, phone, voice), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 ring	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ring	nsubj
3	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 turns	advcl
4	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ring	punct
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 phone	nmod:poss
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 microphone	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 phone	case
9	microphone	microphone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	nsubj
10	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wobbles	det
12	wobbles	wobble	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turns	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 voice	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 voice	nmod:poss
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wobbles	nmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 signals	case
17	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 signals	amod
18	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turns	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turns	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 turns	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 phone	det
22	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turns	nsubj
23	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 turns	conj
24	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 turns	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 numbers	case
26	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turns	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ring	present	you	Grandma		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grandma=Theme
2	turn	present	your phone's microphone	the wobbles of your voice	electric signals	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wobble=Theme into signal=Trajectory
3	turn	present	the phone	those	numbers	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme into number=Trajectory
4	wobble		your voice			nom wobble «event intransitive»: of=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, 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:035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×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.

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