Phones and how a call travels, sentence 2
From the mast, the numbers race through cables, across countries and even under oceans, to the mast nearest Grandma, then by radio to her phone, where a tiny speaker cone shakes and turns them back into your voice.
Who acts: numbers, tiny speaker cone · What happens: race, shake, turn · To what, where: mast, numbers
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 (numbers, tiny speaker cone), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 mast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mast | det |
| 3 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 race | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mast | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 numbers | det |
| 6 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 race | nsubj |
| 7 | race | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 cables | case |
| 9 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 race | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 countries | punct |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 countries | case |
| 12 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cables | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 oceans | cc |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 oceans | advmod |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 oceans | case |
| 16 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cables | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mast | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 mast | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mast | det |
| 20 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 race | conj |
| 21 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 mast | amod |
| 22 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nearest | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 radio | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 radio | advmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 radio | case |
| 26 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 race | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 phone | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 phone | nmod:poss |
| 29 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 radio | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 shakes | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 shakes | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cone | det |
| 33 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 cone | amod |
| 34 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cone | compound |
| 35 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shakes | nsubj |
| 36 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 phone | acl:relcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 turns | cc |
| 38 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 shakes | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 turns | obj |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 turns | advmod |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 voice | case |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 voice | nmod:poss |
| 43 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 back | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 race | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | race | present | the numbers | the mast | through cables and countries and oceans; by radio to microphone's phone | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mast=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shake | present | a tiny speaker cone | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | turn | present | a tiny speaker cone not said here | numbers = number | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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:2.
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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×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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