--- title: A text message is sent to the network, stored and passed to the othe… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics description: A text message is sent to the network, stored and passed to the other phone when it can be reached; the first text, sent in 1992, said Merry Christmas. Who acts: first text. 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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 (first text), 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:13 # text = A text message is sent to the network, stored and passed to the other phone when it can be reached; the first text, sent in 1992, said Merry Christmas. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 network network NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 stored store VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 21 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 25 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 1992 1992 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 Merry Merry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | present · passive | | a text message | | the network | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to network=Destination | | 2 | **store** | participle | | the network *not said here* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pass** | participle | | | | the other phone | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to phone=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **reach** | can · passive | | message | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **send** | participle | | the first text *not said here* | | 1992 | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1992=Destination | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the first text | Merry Christmas | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent christmas=Topic | 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:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/12/) - next →: [Phones and how a call travels, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/)