Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 8
The packets travel through cables, through glass fibres as flashes of light, and through the air as radio waves, passing from one router to the next.
Who acts: packets, light · What happens: travel, pass, flash · To what, where: cables, one router
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 packets | det |
| 2 | packets | packet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 travel | nsubj |
| 3 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 cables | case |
| 5 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 travel | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fibres | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 fibres | case |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fibres | compound |
| 9 | fibres | fibre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cables | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 flashes | case |
| 11 | flashes | flash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 travel | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 light | case |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flashes | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 air | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 air | cc |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cables | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 waves | case |
| 20 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waves | compound |
| 21 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 air | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 passing | punct |
| 23 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 travel | advcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 router | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 router | nummod |
| 26 | router | router | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passing | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 next | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 next | det |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 passing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travel | 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 | travel | present | the packets | cables and glass fibres and the air as radio waves | as flashes of light | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cable=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pass | gerund | the packets not said here | one router | to the next | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from router=Initial_Location to next=Destination | |||
| 3 | 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.
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:8.
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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