Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 7

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, which turns the voice into a changing electric current and back into sound at the other end.

Who acts: Alexander, telephone · What happens: patent, turn, change · To what, where: telephone, 1876, voice, changing 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 (Alexander, telephone), 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 1876	case
2	1876	1876	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 patented	obl
3	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 patented	nsubj
4	Graham	Graham	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Alexander	flat
5	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Alexander	flat
6	patented	patent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 telephone	det
8	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 patented	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turns	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 turns	nsubj
11	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 telephone	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 voice	det
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turns	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	18 current	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 current	det
16	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 current	amod
17	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 current	amod
18	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turns	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sound	cc
20	back	back	ADV	_	22 sound	advmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 sound	case
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 current	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 end	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 end	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 end	amod
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sound	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 patented	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	patent	past	Alexander	the telephone	1876	vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telephone=Theme
2	turn	present	the telephone	the voice	a changing electric current and sound at the other end	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent voice=Theme into current=Trajectory
3	change	gerund				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet.lesson:7.

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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