Phones and how a call travels, sentence 11

The signal bars show how strong the radio signal from the nearest mast is, and hills, thick walls and lifts, with their metal walls, can block it.

Who acts: signal bars, radio signal, hills · What happens: show, be, block · To what, where: mast · 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 (signal bars, radio signal, hills), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bars	det
2	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bars	compound
3	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 show	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 signal	det
8	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 signal	compound
9	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	nsubj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 mast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mast	det
12	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 mast	amod
13	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 signal	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 block	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 block	cc
17	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 block	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 walls	punct
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 walls	amod
20	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hills	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lifts	cc
22	lifts	lift	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hills	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 walls	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 walls	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 walls	nmod:poss
26	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 walls	compound
27	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lifts	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 walls	punct
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 block	aux
30	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 show	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 block	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	the signal bars			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the radio signal from the nearest mast		strong property	tree rules
3	block	can	hills and thick walls and lifts	mast		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=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:11.

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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