Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 13
The electric telegraph sent messages as pulses of electric current along wires.
Who acts: electric telegraph · What happens: send, pulse · To what, where: messages, electric current
This is a sentence of the lesson «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world 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 (electric telegraph), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 telegraph | det |
| 2 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 telegraph | amod |
| 3 | telegraph | telegraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 pulses | case |
| 7 | pulses | pulse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 current | case |
| 9 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 current | amod |
| 10 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulses | nmod |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 wires | case |
| 12 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 current | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the electric telegraph | messages | as pulses of electric current along wires | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | |||
| 2 | pulse | electric current along wires | nom pulse «event transitive»: of=patient |
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:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet.lesson:13.
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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