--- title: A phone mast has antennas that send and receive radio signals from p… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics description: A phone mast has antennas that send and receive radio signals from phones in its area, called a cell, which is why mobiles are called cell phones in America; never climb a mast or its fence. Who acts: phone mast, antennas, area, cell. 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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 mast, antennas, area, cell), 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:10 # text = A phone mast has antennas that send and receive radio signals from phones in its area, called a cell, which is why mobiles are called cell phones in America; never climb a mast or its fence. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 antennas antenna NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 receive receive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 conj _ _ 25 mobiles mobile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl:relcl _ _ 28 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=36:cc 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a phone mast | antennas | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antenna=Patient | | 2 | **send** | present | antennas | | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **receive** | present | antennas *not said here* | radio signals | | phones in phone's area | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent signal=Theme from phone=Source | | 4 | **call** | past | phone's area *not said here* | a cell | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cell=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | a cell | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **call** | present · passive | | mobiles | | America | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 7 | **not** **climb** | infinitive | | a mast or phone's fence | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location mast=Theme | 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:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/9/) - next →: [Phones and how a call travels, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/)