Phones and how a call travels, sentence 19
A walkie-talkie sends your voice by radio straight to another walkie-talkie with no masts, and only one person can talk at a time, so people say over when they finish.
Who acts: walkie talkie, one person, people · What happens: send, talk, say, finish · To what, where: voice, walkie talkie · 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 (walkie talkie, one person, people), 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 | 4 talkie | det |
| 2 | walkie | walkie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talkie | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 walkie | punct |
| 4 | talkie | talkie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sends | nsubj |
| 5 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sends | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 radio | case |
| 9 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sends | obl |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 talkie | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 talkie | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 talkie | det |
| 13 | walkie | walkie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 talkie | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 walkie | punct |
| 15 | talkie | talkie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sends | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 masts | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 masts | det |
| 18 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 talkie | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 talk | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 talk | cc |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 one | advmod |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 person | nummod |
| 23 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 talk | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 talk | aux |
| 25 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sends | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 talk | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 say | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 say | advmod |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 say | nsubj |
| 32 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sends | conj |
| 33 | over | over | ADV | _ | 36 finish | advmod |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 finish | advmod |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 finish | nsubj |
| 36 | finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 say | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sends | 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 | send | present | a walkie talkie | your voice | another walkie talkie with no masts | by radio | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme to talkie=Destination | ||
| 2 | talk | can | one person | time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | finish | present | people | over property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:19.
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, 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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