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title: A landline phone sends the call along a wire or fibre to an exchange… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics
description: A landline phone sends the call along a wire or fibre to an exchange and on to the other phone, and many countries are switching off old copper phone lines. Who acts: landline phone, many countries. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology course of Mova's primary s
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# Phones and how a call travels, sentence 17

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A landline phone sends the call along a wire or fibre to an exchange and on to the other phone, and many countries are switching off old copper phone lines.

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**Who acts:** landline phone, many countries · **What happens:** send, switch off · **To what, where:** call, exchange, old copper phone lines

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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 (landline phone, many countries), 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:17
# text = A landline phone sends the call along a wire or fibre to an exchange and on to the other phone, and many countries are switching off old copper phone lines.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	landline	landline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fibre	fibre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	switching	switch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:compound
30	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	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 | **send** | present | a landline phone | the call |  | a exchange and the other phone |  | along a wire or fibre | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent call=Theme to exchange=Destination |
| 2 | **switch off** | present · progressive | many countries | old copper phone lines |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |

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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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**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 ×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/).

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