Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 20
In 1901 Guglielmo Marconi sent a radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who acts: Guglielmo · What happens: send · To what, where: radio signal, 1901
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 (Guglielmo), 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 | _ | 2 1901 | case |
| 2 | 1901 | 1901 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 sent | obl |
| 3 | Guglielmo | Guglielmo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | Marconi | Marconi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Guglielmo | flat |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 signal | det |
| 7 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signal | compound |
| 8 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 Ocean | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ocean | det |
| 11 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ocean | compound |
| 12 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Guglielmo | a radio signal | 1901 | across the Atlantic Ocean | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent signal=Theme in 1901=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:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet.lesson:20.
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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