--- title: When you ring Grandma, your phone's microphone turns the wobbles of… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics description: When you ring Grandma, your phone's microphone turns the wobbles of your voice into electric signals, and the phone turns those into numbers. Who acts: you, microphone, phone, voice. 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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 (you, microphone, phone, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.lesson:0 # text = When you ring Grandma, your phone's microphone turns the wobbles of your voice into electric signals, and the phone turns those into numbers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.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): R5-strong ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ring ring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 microphone microphone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wobbles wobble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 23 obj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ring** | present | you | Grandma | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grandma=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | present | your phone's microphone | the wobbles of your voice | | electric signals | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wobble=Theme into signal=Trajectory | | 3 | **turn** | present | the phone | those | | numbers | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme into number=Trajectory | | 4 | **wobble** | | your voice | | | | | | nom wobble «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](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:035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.lesson:0`. **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 ×2. **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: [Batteries, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/18/) - next →: [Phones and how a call travels, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/)