Phones and how a call travels, sentence 8
In a mobile call, your phone turns your voice into numbers and sends them by radio to the nearest mast, and cables and other masts carry them to the other phone in a fraction of a second.
Who acts: phone, cables · What happens: turn, send, carry · To what, where: voice, numbers, nearest mast, fraction
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 (phone, cables), 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 | mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 call | amod |
| 4 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 phone | nmod:poss |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | nsubj |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 voice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 numbers | case |
| 12 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turns | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sends | cc |
| 14 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turns | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sends | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 radio | case |
| 17 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sends | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 mast | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mast | det |
| 20 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 mast | amod |
| 21 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sends | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 carry | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 carry | cc |
| 24 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 carry | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 masts | cc |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 masts | amod |
| 27 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cables | conj |
| 28 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turns | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 carry | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 phone | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 phone | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 phone | amod |
| 33 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carry | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 fraction | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 fraction | det |
| 36 | fraction | fraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carry | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 second | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 second | det |
| 39 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 fraction | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | your phone | your voice | into numbers; in a mobile call | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent voice=Patient in call=Topic into number=Recipient | |||
| 2 | send | present | your phone not said here | numbers = number | the nearest mast | by radio | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to mast=Destination | ||
| 3 | carry | present | cables and other masts | numbers = number | a fraction of a second | to the other phone | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to phone=Destination |
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:8.
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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