Phones and how a call travels, sentence 4
Each mast looks after a patch of land called a cell, which is why Americans say cell phone.
Who acts: mast, patch, Americans · What happens: look, call, be, say · To what, where: cell, cell phone · 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 (mast, patch, Americans), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 mast | det |
| 2 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 patch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 patch | det |
| 6 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 patch | nmod |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 patch | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cell | det |
| 11 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 why | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 why | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 why | cop |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 looks | advcl |
| 16 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 why | ccomp |
| 18 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 phone | compound |
| 19 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | each mast | after a patch of land | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a patch of land not said here | a cell | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cell=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Americans | cell phone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent phone=Topic |
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:4.
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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