Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 21
A broadcast, such as radio or television, sends the same message from one sender to many people at once.
Who acts: broadcast · What happens: send · To what, where: same message, many people, one sender
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 (broadcast), 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 | 2 broadcast | det |
| 2 | broadcast | broadcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sends | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 radio | punct |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 6 radio | case |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 such | fixed |
| 6 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broadcast | nmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 television | cc |
| 8 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 radio | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 broadcast | punct |
| 10 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 message | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 message | amod |
| 13 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sends | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 sender | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sender | nummod |
| 16 | sender | sender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 message | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sends | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | _ | 10 sends | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | a broadcast such radio or television | the same message | many people | one sender | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to people=Destination from sender=Initial_Location |
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:21.
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 ×1, 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.
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