--- title: A Wi-Fi router is a small radio station that talks to your devices b… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics description: A Wi-Fi router is a small radio station that talks to your devices by radio and passes data along a cable to the internet; thick walls, mirrors and fish tanks can weaken the signal. Who acts: Wi Fi router, small radio station, thick walls. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wi Fi router, small radio station, thick walls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:16 # text = A Wi-Fi router is a small radio station that talks to your devices by radio and passes data along a cable to the internet; thick walls, mirrors and fish tanks can weaken the signal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 014-electricity-at-home.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 Wi Wi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Fi fi NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 router router NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 devices device NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 data data NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 along along ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 internet internet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 mirrors mirror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 weaken weaken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is a** | present | a Wi Fi router | a small radio station | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **talk** | present | a small radio station | | | | | to your devices; by radio | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to device=Co-Agent | | 3 | **pass** | present | a small radio station *not said here* | data | | a cable to the internet | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent data=Theme along cable=Destination | | 4 | **weaken** | can | thick walls and mirrors and fish tanks | the signal | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent signal=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:technology:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:16`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Electricity at home: switches, plugs,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/15/) - next →: [Electricity at home: switches, plugs,…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/)