Phones and how a call travels, sentence 15
In a video call the camera captures your face, the phone squeezes the video into smaller data and sends it over the internet, which is why it can look blurry.
Who acts: camera, phone, internet · What happens: capture, squeeze, send, be · To what, where: face, video call, video, smaller data, phone, internet
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 (camera, phone, internet), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 call | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 call | det |
| 3 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | compound |
| 4 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 captures | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 camera | det |
| 6 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 captures | nsubj |
| 7 | captures | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 squeezes | parataxis |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 captures | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 phone | det |
| 12 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 squeezes | nsubj |
| 13 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 video | det |
| 15 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 squeezes | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 data | case |
| 17 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 data | amod |
| 18 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 squeezes | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sends | cc |
| 20 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 squeezes | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sends | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 internet | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 internet | det |
| 24 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sends | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 look | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 look | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 look | cop |
| 28 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 look | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 look | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 look | aux |
| 31 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 internet | parataxis |
| 32 | blurry | blurry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 look | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 squeezes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | present | the camera | your face | a video call | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | |||
| 2 | squeeze | present | the phone | the video | smaller data | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent video=Material into data=Product | |||
| 3 | send | present | the phone not said here | phone | the internet | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | can · present | the internet | blurry, look 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:15.
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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