Phones and how a call travels, sentence 1
It sends the numbers by invisible radio waves to the nearest phone mast, often a pole on a roof you have walked past a hundred times.
Who acts: phone, you · What happens: send, walk · To what, where: numbers, nearest phone mast, pole
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 (phone, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sends | nsubj |
| 2 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 numbers | det |
| 4 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sends | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 waves | case |
| 6 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waves | amod |
| 7 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waves | compound |
| 8 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sends | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mast | det |
| 11 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 mast | amod |
| 12 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mast | compound |
| 13 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sends | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pole | punct |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 pole | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pole | det |
| 17 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mast | appos |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 roof | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 roof | det |
| 20 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pole | nmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 walked | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 walked | aux |
| 23 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 pole | acl:relcl |
| 24 | past | past | ADP | _ | 27 times | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 times | det |
| 26 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 times | nummod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 walked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | phone | the numbers | the nearest phone mast | by invisible radio waves | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent number=Theme to mast=Destination | ||
| 2 | walk | present · perfect | you | a pole on a roof not said here | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pole=Trajectory |
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:1.
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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