The internet and undersea cables, sentence 18
A smart speaker listens for a wake word, and only then sends your request to computers online for an answer; ask an adult before using one, because it may store recordings.
Who acts: smart speaker, speaker, your · What happens: listen, send, ask, use, store, request · To what, where: request, computers, adult, one, recordings
This is a sentence of the lesson «The internet and undersea cables» 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 (smart speaker, speaker, your), 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 speaker | det |
| 2 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 speaker | amod |
| 3 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listens | nsubj |
| 4 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 word | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | wake | wake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | compound |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listens | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sends | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sends | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 sends | advmod |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sends | advmod |
| 13 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 listens | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 request | nmod:poss |
| 15 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sends | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 computers | case |
| 17 | computers | computer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sends | obl |
| 18 | online | online | ADV | _ | 13 sends | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 answer | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 answer | det |
| 21 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sends | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 ask | punct |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 listens | parataxis |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 adult | det |
| 25 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ask | obj |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 27 using | mark |
| 27 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 ask | advcl |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 using | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 recordings | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 store | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 store | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 store | aux |
| 33 | store | store | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ask | advcl |
| 34 | recordings | recording | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 store | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listens | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | a smart speaker | for a wake word | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | present | a smart speaker not said here | your request | computers | then | for a answer; online property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent request=Theme to computer=Destination | |
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | a adult | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | use | gerund | one | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||||
| 5 | store | may | speaker | recordings | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recording=Theme | ||||
| 6 | request | your | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:037-the-internet-and-undersea-cables.lesson:18.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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