Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 19
Packets travel through metal cables, glass fibres and radio waves.
Who acts: Packets · What happens: travel · To what, where: metal cables
This is a sentence of the lesson «Inventions, computers 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 (Packets), 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 | Packets | packet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travel | nsubj |
| 2 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 cables | case |
| 4 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cables | compound |
| 5 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travel | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fibres | punct |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fibres | compound |
| 8 | fibres | fibre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cables | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 waves | cc |
| 10 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waves | compound |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cables | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | Packets | metal cables and glass fibres and radio waves | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cable=Trajectory |
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:059-inventions-computers-internet.lesson:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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