Phones and how a call travels, sentence 10
A phone mast has antennas that send and receive radio signals from phones in its area, called a cell, which is why mobiles are called cell phones in America; never climb a mast or its fence.
Who acts: phone mast, antennas, area, cell · What happens: have, send, receive, call, be, not climb · To what, where: antennas, radio signals, phones, cell, mobiles, America · Speech: someone speaks here
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 mast, antennas, area, cell), 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 | 3 mast | det |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mast | compound |
| 3 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | antennas | antenna | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 send | nsubj |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 antennas | acl:relcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 receive | cc |
| 9 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | conj |
| 10 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 signals | compound |
| 11 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 receive | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 phones | case |
| 13 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 receive | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 area | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 area | nmod:poss |
| 16 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 phones | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 area | acl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cell | det |
| 20 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 why | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 why | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 why | cop |
| 24 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 cell | conj |
| 25 | mobiles | mobile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 called | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 why | advcl:relcl |
| 28 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 phones | compound |
| 29 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 called | xcomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 America | case |
| 31 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 climb | punct |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 climb | advmod |
| 34 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 has | parataxis |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mast | det |
| 36 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 climb | obj |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 fence | cc |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 fence | nmod:poss |
| 39 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 mast | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a phone mast | antennas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antenna=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send | present | antennas | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | receive | present | antennas not said here | radio signals | phones in phone's area | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent signal=Theme from phone=Source | |||
| 4 | call | past | phone's area not said here | a cell | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cell=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | a cell | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | call | present · passive | mobiles | America | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | not climb | infinitive | a mast or phone's fence | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mast=Theme |
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:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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