Phones and how a call travels, sentence 17

A landline phone sends the call along a wire or fibre to an exchange and on to the other phone, and many countries are switching off old copper phone lines.

Who acts: landline phone, many countries · What happens: send, switch off · To what, where: call, exchange, old copper phone lines

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 (landline phone, many countries), 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 phone	det
2	landline	landline	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 phone	compound
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sends	nsubj
4	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 call	det
6	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sends	obj
7	along	along	ADP	_	9 wire	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wire	det
9	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sends	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 fibre	cc
11	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wire	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 exchange	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 exchange	det
14	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sends	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 phone	cc
16	on	on	ADV	_	20 phone	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 phone	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 phone	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 phone	amod
20	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 exchange	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 switching	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 switching	cc
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 countries	amod
24	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 switching	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 switching	aux
26	switching	switch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sends	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 switching	compound:prt
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lines	amod
29	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lines	compound
30	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lines	compound
31	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 switching	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 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	a landline phone	the call		a exchange and the other phone		along a wire or fibre	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent call=Theme to exchange=Destination
2	switch off	present · progressive	many countries	old copper phone lines					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient

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:17.

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 ×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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