Phones and how a call travels, sentence 12
5G is a newer way of sending phone data by radio that carries more data faster and uses many more small antennas; at the levels used it is safe, with radio waves like those of Wi-Fi and TV.
Who acts: 5G, newer way, levels, data · What happens: be, send, carry, use · To what, where: newer way, phone data, more data, many more small antennas
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 (5G, newer way, levels, data), 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 | 5G | 5G | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | newer | new | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 sending | mark |
| 7 | sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 data | compound |
| 9 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sending | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 radio | case |
| 11 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sending | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 carries | nsubj |
| 13 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 data | amod |
| 15 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | obj |
| 16 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 carries | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 uses | cc |
| 18 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 carries | conj |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 antennas | amod |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 antennas | amod |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 antennas | amod |
| 22 | antennas | antenna | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 uses | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 used | punct |
| 24 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 27 used | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 levels | det |
| 26 | levels | level | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 used | nsubj |
| 27 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carries | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 safe | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 safe | cop |
| 30 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 used | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 waves | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 waves | case |
| 33 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 waves | compound |
| 34 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 used | parataxis |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 those | case |
| 36 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 waves | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Fi | case |
| 38 | Wi | Wi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Fi | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Fi | punct |
| 40 | Fi | fi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 those | nmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 TV | cc |
| 42 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Fi | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 5G | a newer way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | gerund | a newer way not said here | phone data | by radio | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent data=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | present | a newer way | more data | fast property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent data=Theme | |||
| 4 | use | present | a newer way not said here | many more small antennas | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antenna=Patient | ||||
| 5 | use | past | the levels | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | data | safe property | tree rules |
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:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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