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title: The signal bars show how strong the radio signal from the nearest ma… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics
description: The signal bars show how strong the radio signal from the nearest mast is, and hills, thick walls and lifts, with their metal walls, can block it. Who acts: signal bars, radio signal, hills. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Phones and how a call travels, sentence 11

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The signal bars show how strong the radio signal from the nearest mast is, and hills, thick walls and lifts, with their metal walls, can block it.

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**Who acts:** signal bars, radio signal, hills · **What happens:** show, be, block · **To what, where:** mast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology 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 (signal bars, radio signal, hills), 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:11
# text = The signal bars show how strong the radio signal from the nearest mast is, and hills, thick walls and lifts, with their metal walls, can block it.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
17	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	lifts	lift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | the signal bars |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the radio signal from the nearest mast |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **block** | can | hills and thick walls and lifts | mast |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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/).

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