--- title: It sends the numbers by invisible radio waves to the nearest phone m… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics description: It sends the numbers by invisible radio waves to the nearest phone mast, often a pole on a roof you have walked past a hundred times. Who acts: phone, you. 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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 (phone, you), 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:1 # text = It sends the numbers by invisible radio waves to the nearest phone mast, often a pole on a roof you have walked past a hundred times. # 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): no change 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 12 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 walked walk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 acl:relcl _ _ 24 past past ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | present | phone | the numbers | | the nearest phone mast | | by invisible radio waves | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent number=Theme to mast=Destination | | 2 | **walk** | present · perfect | you | a pole on a roof *not said here* | | | time | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pole=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](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:1`. **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: [Phones and how a call travels, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/0/) - next →: [Phones and how a call travels, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/)