The internet and undersea cables, sentence 3

It goes through cables lying on the sea floor, with glass threads as thin as a hair inside, carrying flashes of light from one continent to another.

Who acts: most, cables, light · What happens: go, lie, carry, flash · To what, where: cables, sea floor, flashes, one continent

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 (most, cables, light), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 cables	case
4	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 goes	obl
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cables	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floor	compound
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threads	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 threads	case
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threads	compound
13	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lying	obl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 thin	advmod
15	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 threads	amod
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 hair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hair	det
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thin	obl
19	inside	inside	ADV	_	13 threads	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carrying	punct
21	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lying	conj
22	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carrying	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 light	case
24	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flashes	nmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 continent	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 continent	nummod
27	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carrying	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 another	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 continent	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	most		cables		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through cable=Initial_Location
2	lie	gerund	cables not said here		the sea floor	with glass threads	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
3	carry	gerund	cables not said here	flashes of light	one continent to another		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flash=Theme from continent=Initial_Location
4	flash		light				nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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:3.

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): no change. 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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