Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 9
Today phones, radio, television and the internet all work by the same big idea: turn a message into a signal, send the signal very fast, and turn it back into a message at the other end.
Who acts: Today phones · What happens: work, turn, send, turn back · To what, where: message, signal
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 (Today phones), 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 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 phones | compound |
| 2 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 work | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 radio | punct |
| 4 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 phones | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 television | punct |
| 6 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 radio | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 internet | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 internet | det |
| 9 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 radio | conj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 work | advmod |
| 11 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 idea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 idea | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 idea | amod |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 idea | amod |
| 16 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 work | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 turn | punct |
| 18 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 work | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 message | det |
| 20 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turn | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 signal | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 signal | det |
| 23 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turn | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 send | punct |
| 25 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 turn | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 signal | det |
| 27 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 send | obj |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 fast | advmod |
| 29 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 send | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 turn | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 turn | cc |
| 32 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 turn | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 turn | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 turn | advmod |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 message | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 message | det |
| 37 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turn | obl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 end | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 end | det |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 end | amod |
| 41 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 message | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 work | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Today phones and radio and television and the internet | by the same big idea; all property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | infinitive | a message | a signal | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent message=Theme into signal=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | send | infinitive | the signal | fast property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn back | infinitive | message | a message at the other end | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:9.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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