Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 20
Fibre-optic cables carry information as flashes of light.
Who acts: Fibre optic cables, light · What happens: carry, flash · To what, where: information
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 (Fibre optic cables, light), 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 | Fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cables | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fibre | punct |
| 3 | optic | optic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cables | amod |
| 4 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 flashes | case |
| 8 | flashes | flash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 light | case |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flashes | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Fibre optic cables | information | as flashes of light | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Theme | |||
| 2 | flash | light | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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.
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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. 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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