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title: In a video call the camera captures your face, the phone squeezes th… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics
description: In a video call the camera captures your face, the phone squeezes the video into smaller data and sends it over the internet, which is why it can look blurry. Who acts: camera, phone, internet. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology course of Mova's primary school
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# Phones and how a call travels, sentence 15

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In a video call the camera captures your face, the phone squeezes the video into smaller data and sends it over the internet, which is why it can look blurry.

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**Who acts:** camera, phone, internet · **What happens:** capture, squeeze, send, be · **To what, where:** face, video call, video, smaller data, phone, internet

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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 (camera, phone, internet), 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:15
# text = In a video call the camera captures your face, the phone squeezes the video into smaller data and sends it over the internet, which is why it can look blurry.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	captures	capture	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	_
32	blurry	blurry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | present | the camera | your face |  | a video call |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
| 2 | **squeeze** | present | the phone | the video |  | smaller data |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent video=Material into data=Product |
| 3 | **send** | present | the phone *not said here* | phone |  | the internet |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | can · present | the internet |  |  |  |  | blurry, look *property* | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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/).

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