"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 12

In the 1990s home internet used the phone line through a dial-up modem, which could take about 30 seconds to connect with beeps and screeches and was far too slow for watching films.

Who acts: home internet, up modem · What happens: use, take, connect, be, watch · To what, where: phone line, 1990s, films

This is a sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» 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 (home internet, up modem), 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	_	3 1990s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 1990s	det
3	1990s	1990s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 used	obl
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 internet	compound
5	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 line	det
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 line	compound
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obj
10	through	through	ADP	_	15 modem	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 modem	det
12	dial	dial	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 up	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 dial	punct
14	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 modem	compound
15	modem	modem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 take	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 modem	acl:relcl
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 30	advmod
21	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 seconds	nummod
22	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 take	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 connect	mark
24	connect	connect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 beeps	case
26	beeps	beep	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 connect	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 screeches	cc
28	screeches	screech	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 beeps	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 slow	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 slow	cop
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 slow	advmod
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 slow	advmod
33	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 used	conj
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 watching	mark
35	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 slow	advcl
36	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 watching	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	home internet	the phone line	the 1990s		through a up modem	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient
2	take	could	a up modem			second		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	connect	to-infinitive	a up modem not said here				with beeps and screeches	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with beep=Co-Patient
4	is	past	home internet not said here				far, slow property	tree rules
5	watch	gerund	home internet not said here	films				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=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:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:12.

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): 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.

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